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Theatre Review: ‘Good Bones’ at Studio Theatre

James Ijames is having a very good year, namely, as he’s experiencing a much-heralded Broadway run with his Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play “Fat Ham.” (He just won the Outer Circle Critic’s John Gassner Award for New American Play). He was also commissioned by Studio Theatre back in 2019 and the resulting play, “Good […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2023/05/theatre-review-good-bones-at-studio-theatre/

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"Fat Ham" Glitters Gloriously on Broadway

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #Broadway's #FatHam @FatHamBway written by #JamesIJames directed by #SaheemAli starring #MarcelSpears as a Juicy #Hamlet at a backyard BBQ celebrating his mother's wedding to his father's brother. @PublicTheaterNY transfer

Marcel Spears and Billy Eugene Jones in Broadway’s Fat Ham. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Broadway Theatre Review: Broadway’s Fat Ham By Ross Rising up from the dead, in a matter of speaking, after playing to acclaim at The Public Theatre downtown, playwright James Ijames’s Fat Ham has opened on Broadway and that is a just cause for a glitter ball celebration. This smart and sly backyard BBQ…

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Theatre Review: Fat Ham (Public Theater, New York) ★★★★★

Theatre Review: Fat Ham (Public Theater, New York) ★★★★★

While Michael R. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop is enjoying a hit run on Broadway—and is deservedly the most Tony-nominated production of the season—downtown at the Public Theater a 2022 Pulitzer-winner, James Ijames’ Fat Ham officially opened last night, with its original run already extended twice until July 3rd. Both are extraordinarily impactful and hugely…

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‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub.

‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub.

Perhaps the real tragedy of “Hamlet” is that it doesn’t end with a dance party; too many of its characters lie dead at the final curtain for anyone to shake a leg. But if “Hamlet” wallows, “Fat Ham,” the hilarious yet profound new “Hamlet”-inspired play by James Ijames, prefers to mellow. Built on the gnawed bones of its predecessor, and reset in the modern-day South among members of a Black…

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By BY JESSE GREEN from Theater in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/theater/fat-ham-review.html?partner=IFTTT Set at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub. New York Times