DIRECT FROM NEW YORK EDDIE IZZARD BRINGS SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET TO SEATTLE
The Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Rep
April 30 – May 11, 2025
Tickets On Sale Thursday, March 6 at 10 a.m.
A WestBeth Entertainment production co-presented by Seattle Theatre Group and Seattle Rep. Following an upcoming two-week run at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, a triple-extended New York run, a box office record-breaking
two-week run at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and a six-week London run—which Dame Judi Dench called ‘Spectacular’—Tony Award-nominated Eddie Izzard brings her acclaimed solo performance of Hamlet to Seattle! Izzard brings 23 characters to life in a dynamic new staging of William Shakespeare’s iconic play, adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell. This two-week engagement performs Weds., April 30 to Sun., May 11 at Seattle Rep’s Leo K. Theatre and is a co-presentation by Seattle Theatre Group (STG) and Seattle Rep.
Tickets go on sale on Thurs., March 6 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased online at
www.seattlerep.org, by phone at 206-443-2222, or in person at the Seattle Rep box office at 155 Mercer Street at Seattle Center.
Hamlet received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, as well as a nomination for the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award. The King of Denmark is dead, and Prince Hamlet must take revenge—initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. In Hamlet, Izzard portrays men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.
Izzard says, “I 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. Selina, Mark, and I want audiences to see and hear an accessible, touching, scary, and
dramatic Hamlet.”
Hamlet marks Izzard’s second theatre production, following her sold-out run of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations, which played to rave reviews in New York and at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.
The creative team for Hamlet includes Tom Piper (Set Design), Tyler Elich (Lighting Design), Tom Piper and Libby DaCosta (Costume Stylist), Eliza Thompson (Composer), Didi Hopkins (Movement Director), and J. Allen Suddeth (Fight Director). Hamlet is produced by WestBeth Entertainment, Mick Perrin Worldwide, and John Gore.