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.
