Kenny Leon’s production, starring Ato Blankson-Wood, gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing. Photo: Joan Marcus
While Hollywood is hitting Peak TV, New York theater is somewhere near Peak Hamlet. In the past year alone, we’ve gotten Robert Icke’s sleek and modern Hamlet at the Park Avenue Armory, Thomas Ostermeier’s muddy and German Hamlet at the BAM Next Wave Festival, and James Ijames’s revised southern-cookout version, Fat Ham. Expand the scope further and you could include the opera at the Met and pre-pandemic forays to Elsinore starring Ruth Negga and Oscar Isaac.
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