The Off-Broadway transfer of Hamlet from London’s National Theatre officially opened at the Off-Broadway company’s Harvey Theater May 4, and the reviews are rolling in! See what critics had to say about the production—which continues through May 17—below.
Directed by Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat), this rendition of Shakespeare’s classic stars Olivier winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) as the famed prince of Denmark, alongside Maureen Beattie (Yerma) as First Player, Joe Bolland (The Play That Goes Wrong) as Guildenstern, Matthew Cottle (The Windsors) as Polonius, Tim Dewberry (Antony & Cleopatra) as Marcellus/Captain, Ayesha Dharker (Doctor Who) as Gertrude, Ryan Ellsworth (The Motive and the Cue) as Ghost/Player King/First Gravedigger, Tom Glenister (A Doll’s House) as Laertes, Mary Higgins (Hamlet) as Osric/Voltemand, Liz Jadav (Pygmalion) as Nurse/Priest, Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer (Much Ado About Nothing) as Fortinbras, Hari Mackinnon (The Comedy of Errors) as Rosencrantz, Francesca Mills (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) as Ophelia, Sophia Papadopoulos (Henry VI) as Cornelius/English Ambassador/Second Gravedigger, Alistair Petrie (Sex Education) as Claudius, Seb Slade (Chariots of Fire) as Francisco/Reynaldo, Noel White (Hamlet) as Bernardo, and Tessa Wong (Hamlet) as Horatio.
La Voce di New York (JK Clarke)
New York Magazine/Vulture (Sara Holdren)*
New York Stage Review (David Finkle, Michael Sommers)
New York Theatre Guide (Austin Fimmano)
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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
The creative team for the production includes set and costume designer Ben Stones, lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, composer Richard Taylor, choreographer Mandela Siobhan, and fight director Kate Waters, with associate director Georgie Straight. Casting is by Alastair Coomer and Martin Poile.
For more information, visit BAM.org/Hamlet.