DIRECT FROM NEW YORK, LONDON, AND CHICAGO, TONY AWARD NOMINEE EDDIE IZZARD BRINGS SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET TO SAN FRANCISCO 

Following 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 San Francisco! Infused with her signature wit and storytelling, Izzard brings to life 23 characters in a dynamic new staging of Williams Shakespeare’s iconic play, adapted by Mark Izzard and directed by Selina Cadell. This strictly two-week engagement performs Tuesday, April 1 through Sunday, April 13, 2025 at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater (1127 Market St.).

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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.

In Hamlet, The King of Denmark is dead, and Prince Hamlet is determined to take revenge—initiating a cascade of events that will destroy both family and state. Izzard portrays men, women, ghosts, scholars, tyrants, courtiers, lovers, fools, and poets.

Izzard says of the monumental undertaking, “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 Eddie’s second solo show, following her sold-out run of Charles Dicken’ Great Expectations, which played to rave reviews in New York and at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.