James Ijames News

Details have been announced for the RSC's Summer 2025 season and upcoming festive family show, The BFG. Learn more about the full season lineup and how to get tickets here!

Tickets are selling fast for Island City Stage's milestone production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance. In response to popular demand, an additional show has been added on Wednesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m.

The Goodman’s FAT HAM is an intelligent, uproarious adaptation that explores and celebrates Black joy and resilience. The co-production with Definition Theatre has already been extended through March 2.

This March, The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio will produce James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning and five-time Tony nominated Fat Ham, a witty take on Shakespeare's Hamlet where the only real death is the patriarchy.

It’s opening night for Tyrone Phillips’ Chicago premiere-production of James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham—which extends by popular demand with eight additional performances. Learn more.

I will start off straight away by saying you have to see FAT HAM. And I hope you are lucky enough to see it at Dezart Performs. This cast, in the hands of Michael Shaw, and AD Chuma Gault, form a very realistic, very dysfunctional family coming together at a backyard barbecue in North Carolina resulting in awkward situations and non-stop laughter in the James Ijames play aptly described as “Hamlet at a Southern BBQ”.

Photos and video have been released from James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham at the Goodman Theatre. Check out the photos and video here!

In February, Canadian Stage will present the 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, James Ijames’ FAT HAM. Learn more about the upcoming performance and find out how to get tickets here!

James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham is now playing at The Goodman Theatre. See photos from the production here!

Scripps Ranch Theatre will continue their Season 45 with the San Diego Premier of WHITE,  written by James Ijames, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner playwright of Fat Ham. 

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts for a Challenge America award of $10,000. Learn more about the organization and the grant.

With an all-Chicago cast led by Trumane Alston, previews begin this weekend for the Chicago-premiere of James Ijames's Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham.

Detroit Public Theatre has announced the cast for CONFEDERATES, by DPT Executive Artistic Producer, MacArthur Genius award-winning, Tony nominated, Daughter of Detroit, Dominique Morisseau.

Family secrets, friendship and loyalties drive the heart of Island City Stage's milestone production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance, running January 16 – February 9.

San Francisco Playhouse will present the Northern California Premiere of 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham.

Dezart Performs (dezartperforms.org) presents FAT HAM Jan 17 - 26, 2025 directed by Michael Shaw.Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijamesreinvents Shakespeares' Hamlet with this new drama. Performances are at The Pearl McManus Theater at the historic Palm Springs Woman’s Club, 314 S. Cahuilla Road, Downtown Palm Springs. FAT HAM runs 90 minutes without intermission.

Due to popular demand, the Philadelphia-based theater company The Wilma Theater has announced an extension of its ongoing regional premiere presentation of the critically acclaimed play The Comeuppance.

Philadelphia Theatre Company will celebrate its 50th season and its education programs with a one-night benefit reading of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally, starring Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Learn more!

The Inspired Acting Company has released photos of “Moon Man Walk,” a story about love, family, and the secrets we keep by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, James Ijames.

ISLAND CITY STAGE has extended THE FANTASTICKS, offering a South Florida premiere with an LGBTQ+ twist. Discover this reimagined classic musical in its limited run.