Playwright James Ijames’ Broadway play is now getting its first Chicago-based production with an ensemble cast.
Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on ...
Fat Ham” — 3.5 stars “It’s Shakespeare. Kind of.” That’s how Juicy, the meditative, somewhat unmoored central character in “Fat Ham” perceives the tragic, surreal, hilarious ...
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community ...
How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it ...
During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story.
However, Grand Theft Hamlet explores this unique combination of past and present while revealing new and unexpected narrative ...
Tucked away in the hills of Los Santos, a wondrous and lawless land, is the Vinewood Bowl, a gigantic amphitheater that typically sits empty. Modeled after the real-life Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, ...
The characters’ inexpressive faces are closer to Noh theater than to the Globe. But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines ...
At this point, we’ve just about exhausted the possibilities of the “quarantine movie” following the onset of the COVID-19 ...
Playwright James Ijames plays constantly with two types of expectations: the ones your family places on you, and the ones that Shakespeare has placed on all of us.