Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary covering how the GTA Online Shakespeare experience came to be, is coming to U.S. theaters in 2025. The theatrical release follows Grand Theft Hamlet’s showing at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and its win for Innovation Award at the 2022 Stage Awards, a British institution that recognizes excellence in performance theatre. Read more: GTA 6 Online needs anonymity Director Pinny Grylls and actor Sam Crane created the in-game show in 2020 as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The couple watched their son playing GTA Online, Crane got a friend to join him in the game, and they started planning an in-game theatrical production just for fun. That concept grew, until they decided to stage Hamlet in GTA Online – a decision that came with far more hardships than they initially expected. You can probably guess some of them, if you’ve played GTA Online. Griefers, environment issues, griefers, finding the right venue, griefers. The documentary trailer shows several instances where other