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Pianist's Skull Steals Hamlet Scene

Concert pianist left skull to theater

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 26, 2008 9:24 AM CST

(Newser) – A concert pianist has appeared on stage in a 22-performance run of Hamlet—26 years after his death. André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who was smuggled out of Warsaw as a child of 7, left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company upon his death...   Read full story »

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