Photo from Saturday
Eddie Izzard's solo performance of "Hamlet" is getting a four-week window at the Orpheum Theatre on Second Avenue between Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place. (H/T Steven!)
The show, currently in production at the Greenwich House Theater, will be moving to the East Village for an extended run from March 19 to April 14... tickets are now on sale here.
The performance has drawn decent reviews, though some outlets, like the Times, were tough. ("One comes away with the sense that Eddie Izzard didn't perform “Hamlet” so much as become defeated by it.")
In any event, this continues the post-"Stomp" life of the Orpheum... Rachel Bloom's "Death, Let Me Do My Show" most recently held forth here.
"Stomp" ended its 29-year reign at the Orpheum in January 2023. Now, with performers like Bloom and Izzard taking the stage, the Orpheum is returning to its roots in the 1980s and early 1990s when it hosted Off-Broadway productions like Sandra Bernhard's "Without You I'm Nothing," Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" and John Leguizamo's "Mambo Mouth."
