The cancellation marks the latest in a series of challenges Virginia Rep, central Virginia’s largest theater company, has faced over the past six months.

Virginia Repertory Theatre has cancelled “Fat Ham” roughly a week before it was set to run in Richmond due to financial ...

Hamlet” (the original) was written, of course, in 1600s vintage English blank verse; much of “Fat Ham” is in Black English but every bit or more understandable than its forebear, ...

Brenden Peifer, left, is Tio and Ananias J. Dixon is Juicy in the Cleveland Play House production of "Fat Ham," written by ...

“Fat Ham” certainly fit that bill: the play reimagines Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” with the lead character as a queer, Black man. While the adaptation by James Ijames won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 and had ...

The Globe and Mail spoke to Philip Akin and Peter Fernandes about taking on playwright James Ijames’ adaptation of ...

A failed real estate deal has brought the curtain down on a Virginia Repertory Theatre production slated to run in the coming ...

Virginia Rep has announced their third title of the 2024/2025 season - Fat Ham playing March 1 - March 23 on the Majorie Arenstein stage at the historic November Theatre.

Calvin Leon Smith became interested in theater while a student at Cordova High. Now, he's starring on Broadway as Clifford ...

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.

“It’s not about the sauce. It’s about the rub.” — barbecue master Rev, “Fat Ham” “Ay, there’s the rub.” — “Hamlet,” Act 3, Scene 1 (and Rev’s nephew Juicy, “Fat Ham ...