Fat Ham
Opened: April 12, 2023Closing: August 06, 2023
Schedule:
Tuesday at 7pm
Wednesday at 2pm and 8pm
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 7pm
Saturday at 2pm and 8pm
and Sunday at 3PM
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Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. But here’s the rub! Revenge doesn’t come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy. The deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning play from James Ijames and director Saheem Ali reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
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Review: Skewering Masculinity, in a Hot and Sizzling ‘Fat Ham’
10 / 10
That “Fat Ham” achieves its happy, even joyful, ending honestly, without denying the weight of forces that make “Hamlet” feel just as honest, is a sign of how capacious and original the writing is, growing the skin of its own necessity instead of merely burrowing into Shakespeare’s. It’s also a sign of how beautifully the cast brings the writing to life. Everyone is excellent, and Thomas’s loud-lady-in-the-pew-behind-you routine is flat-out hilarious. But Spears, with his minute calibrations of feyness and fierceness, holds the whole thing together. In his scenes with Crawford, especially one in which Tedra pleads with Juicy to hold it together — “you don’t get to go crazy” — he lets us see how a character creates and re-creates himself in real time.
On Broadway, Fat Ham Keeps You at a Distance From the Cookout
7 / 10
There’s little faith here that an audience might be able to understand Tedra, Juicy, or the rest of the cookout attendees, so we aren’t allowed to glimpse too much of them. It brings out a bitter, resentful tang in Ijames’s script that doesn’t sit well with the feast — all the more so because it isn’t fully cooked. I’d be interested to see another version of Fat Ham that brings that bitterness out further, slices toward the confrontational bones underneath the comedy. Instead, we get that splashy finale complete with a confetti cannon — played as celebratory, though the insistence on joy comes off as condescending. Watching the characters dance away, freed from their tragic story line, I was theoretically happy for them but left with the gnawing sensation that I didn’t know them much at all.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning FAT HAM Extends for a Third Time at The Public Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 9, 2022
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play FAT HAM has extended for a third time at The Public Theater and will now run through Sunday, July 17th.
VIDEO: Go Behind the Scenes of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning FAT HAM
by Nicole Rosky - June 5, 2022
Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new, Pulitzer prize-winning drama, FAT HAM, which is currently playing at the Public Theater. Below, watch as PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown gets the scoop on the new show from Ijames as a part of the arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Photos: Pulitzer Prize-Winner FAT HAM Opens at The Public Theater!
by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2022
FAT HAM, the 2022 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, celebrated its opening night last night at The Public Theater! Go inside the celebration!
Review Roundup: FAT HAM Opens at The Public Theater
by Review Roundups - May 26, 2022
Check out the critic's reviews from the New York Times and elsewhere for the The Public Theater and National Black Theatre production of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play FAT HAM at The Public Theater.
FAT HAM Extended for Two More Weeks at The Public
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 26, 2022
The Public Theater and National Black Theatre has announced that the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play FAT HAM has extended again now through Sunday, July 3rd at The Public Theater.
Photos: First Look at the Pulitzer Prize-Winning FAT HAM at The Public Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2022
See the first photos from FAT HAM! Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with his new drama, FAT HAM. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder.
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Fat Ham opened at the American Airlines Theatre (Broadway) on Wednesday Apr 12, 2023 and has now been running for 1 month.
Fat Ham has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2022 and Broadway which opened in 2023.
Fat Ham is playing at the American Airlines Theatre (Broadway), which is located at 229 W. 42nd St. New York.
Best Play , Best Costume Design of a Play for Dominique Fawn HillBest Direction of a Play for Saheem Ali and Best Lighting Design of a Play for Bradley King.
Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for James Ijames, Outstanding Sound Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Mikaal SulaimanOutstanding Production of a Play (Drama League Awards) for Fat Ham and John Gassner Award for New American Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for James Ijames.
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Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for James Ijames Outstanding Sound Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Mikaal Sulaiman Outstanding Production of a Play (Drama League Awards) for Fat Ham John Gassner Award for New American Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for James Ijames.
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