James Ijames’ defiant and raucous play Fat Ham, now at the American Airlines Theater on Broadway, begins in transition. Relics of a recent funeral are slid into corners to make space for ...

What a piece of work! Funny, moving, sexy, and smart, San Francisco Playhouse’s production of “Fat Ham,” running through April 19, is the best theater the Bay Area has seen this year. James Ijames’ ...

In San Francisco Playhouse’s stirring and hilarious production of James Ijames‘ 2022 Pulitzer-prize-winning “Fat Ham,” there is a raucous energy that doesn’t let up for the play’s 110 ...

Fat Ham is an opportunity to celebrate Black culture within a powerful storytelling, yet classical framework. It's an honor ...

"Fat Ham," James Ijames' 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner onstage in a Northern California premiere presented by San Francisco Playhouse, is explosive. With oblique references to Shakespeare's "Hamlet ...

To be, or not to be, is the driving question behind James Ijames’s play and Wilbury ... and life itself. “Fat Ham” transfers this story to a contemporary time and place — a backyard ...

Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Fat Ham, John Gassner Award for New American Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Fat Ham, Special Citation (Obie Awards) for Fat Ham, Pulitzer Prize for ...

Written by James Ijames and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Fat Ham” transports Hamlet to a backyard barbecue in North Carolina where a Black family celebrates a recent wedding.

Fortunately, thanks to Margo Hall’s exhilarating directing, the audience is alive and well at San Francisco Playhouse’s production of “Fat Ham,” James Ijames modern comedic retelling of ...

Brévo Theatre and GableStage for their production of James Ijames’s 2022 Pulitzer prize-winning play, “Fat Ham.” The show, which ran on Broadway in 2023, tells the story of Hamlet if he ...

Today, he's one of the most celebrated theatre actors in the country with a starring role in a new production of Fat Ham — James Ijames's Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Hamlet set at a ...

James Ijames (Playwright) is a playwright and educator. Ijames is the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer in Drama for Fat Ham, a Pew Fellow for Playwriting, the Terrance McNally New Play Award for ...