Fat Ham is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright James Ijames. It is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The play was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [1] [2] [3] and was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play.

Jan 11, 2025 · Celebrate the richness of Black culture and community with us at a special pre-show reception and conversation, followed by the 7:30 PM performance of Fat Ham, a modern and powerful reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in the American South.

Fat Ham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act play by playwright James Ijames that premiered in 2021. It recounts tensions in a Black Southern family through its protagonist Juicy, a young queer man who struggles with his identity and life purpose.

Apr 13, 2023 · Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, “Fat Ham” recasts its source material to imagine what Shakespeare did not — how people might overcome circumstances, expectations and their own demons to...

Mar 16, 2025 · After a ghostly visit from his recently deceased father, Juicy must throw a cookout to celebrate his mother’s remarriage to his late father’s brother. Striking an eerie resemblance to that classic tale, Juicy must grapple with familial tensions, a quest for justice, and his own identity as he determines his next move.

Apr 29, 2021 · Built on the gnawed bones of its predecessor, and reset in the modern-day South among members of a Black family that runs a barbecue restaurant, “Fat Ham” refuses the tropes of Black suffering...

The reviews are rolling in for James Ijames' Pulitzer-winning play Fat Ham, which opened at the American Airlines Theatre on April 12 after beginning previews on March 21 for a 14-week...

The 2022 Pulitzer-winning, Tony-nominated sensation Fat Ham is a fresh and funny take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet that The New York Times called “a flat-out hilarious comedy.” During a Southern family cookout, Juicy is confronted by the ghost …

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fat Ham is a delectable comic tragedy written by the award-winning playwright James Ijames, originally co-produced off-Broadway by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre.