Christian Camargo stars in a stylish 'Hamlet'

The current off-Broadway revival of "Hamlet" is modern, streamlined and primarily black and white, but there is plenty of color, as always, in the centuries-old richness of Shakespeare's words.

Christian Camargo acquits himself admirably as Hamlet, the young Danish prince whose dead father's ghost tells tell him that he was killed by his own brother Claudius. Hamlet was already disgusted by the "wicked spectacle" of his mother so quickly marrying Claudius within two months of his father's death. Now he must contend with his father's desire for revenge and with the treachery of nearly everyone in his life.

Appropriately dark and broody, …