In May of this year, James Ijames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Fat Ham, a bawdy, Black, funny, and unabashedly queer adaptation (of sorts) of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Set on a North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When James Ijames arrived in Philadelphia for grad school at Temple in 2003, he thought, like most actors, he'd leave for New York ...

James Ijames just may be the playwright of the moment. He recently had five plays running in four different cities. And in April 2023, Ijames made his Broadway debut with Fat Ham, a reimagined Hamlet ...

The Wilma premiered James Ijames’ Pulitzer-winning play during the pandemic as a streaming film. Now we can see it in person. Playwright James Ijames returns to the Wilma Theater for its production of ...

Ijames is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated playwright, director and educator. “After an extended national search, our faculty-led search committee was delighted to invite James Ijames ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Ijames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play 'Fat Ham.' Here he's shown at the Obie Awards in New York City in ...

Beginning April 10, Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) will present the world premiere of Wilderness Generation, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated playwright James Ijames, ...

South Philadelphia-based theater company Theatre Exile presents the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames’ play “Abandon,” which continues through May 21. “Abandon” is about Joshua, a ...

This Spring, South Philadelphia-based theater company Theatre Exile (1340 S.13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147) is proud to present the world premiere of Abandon by Philadelphia-based, Pulitzer Prize ...

Mamoudou Athie, Téa Guarino, Khris Davis, and Susan Kelechi Watson in the New York premiere production of Good Bones, by James Ijames and directed by Saheem Ali. Photo: Joan Marcus At first, Aisha and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When James Ijames arrived in Philadelphia for grad school at Temple in 2003, he thought, like most actors, he'd leave for New York or Los Angeles. But he couldn't quit Philly.