{"id":181940,"date":"2026-03-07T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181940\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:11:03","slug":"eddie-izzard-to-present-hamlet-at-straz-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181940\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Izzard to present \u2018Hamlet\u2019 at Straz | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Tony Award-nominated Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed solo performance of \u201cThe Tragedy of Hamlet\u201d to the Tampa Bay area. Performances will be presented March 13-16 in the Jaeb Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $60. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Izzard brings 23 characters to life in a dynamic new staging of William Shakespeare\u2019s iconic play, adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell.<\/p>\n<p>The King of Denmark is dead, and Prince Hamlet must take revenge \u2014 initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. In \u201cHamlet,\u201d Izzard portrays men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools and poets. Izzard says: \u201cI have always gravitated towards playing complex and challenging characters and Hamlet is the ultimate. This is a production for everyone, a timeless drama with an accidental hero. I want audiences to see and hear an accessible, touching, tragic and dramatic Hamlet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Tony Award-nominated Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed solo performance of \u201cThe Tragedy of Hamlet\u201d to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[85880,135,137,136,13226],"class_list":["post-181940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-drama","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}