How Winning the Pulitzer Has Made James Ijames Bolder
Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of “Hamlet,” “Fat Ham,” sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South — and reimagines the tragedy as a comedy.Now that “Fat Ham” has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, expect him to get even bolder.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“I feel like I want to take more risks now,” Ijames said on Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. “I want to be more adventurous.