What’s on Jessica Chastain’s mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt’s silence, the “Fat Ham” ghost, the “Shucked” corn dance and all that “Sweeney” blood.
Tag: Fat Ham (Play)
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Review: Skewering Masculinity, in a Hot and Sizzling ‘Fat Ham’
A modern gloss on “Hamlet” set at a backyard barbecue remakes the tragedy as a comedy, and as a challenge for today.
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What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything.
In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.
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10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection
For our critic-at-large, “Fat Ham,” “Severance,” “A Strange Loop” and “Sandman” were some of the places she found truth and transcendence.