Lupita Nyong'o & Sandra Oh Take Bites of Sizzling 'Fat Ham' During Broadway Opening Night

Lupita Nyong’o and Sandra Oh lend their star power to opening night of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham at American Airlines Theatre on Wednesday (April 12) in New York City.

Fat Ham is the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet told as a modern-day comedy about a queer, Southern college kid trying to escape his family’s toxic masculinity and violence.

“I feel really proud, and excited that it’s going to reach a larger audience,” the play’s creator James Ijames told NYT. “This play is for people who are looking for a new path, people who are trying to figure out how to talk to their family about difficult things, queer people who want to see their reflection, Black people who want to see their reflection, people who love Shakespeare and folks who have never seen a Shakespeare play. It’s for everyone.”

The show has been getting rave reviews including this New York Theatre Guide review: “Running 90 unbroken minutes, it is by turns hilarious, chaotic and weirdly lovely… This slice of life leans hard into comedy, not tragedy, as it ponders big things that matter: personal identity, sexuality, transparency, living out loud.”

Funny and thought-provoking, Fat Ham runs for a strictly limited 14-week engagement through Sunday, June 25, 2023. Tickets available now on FatHamBroadway.com – watch the trailer below!