May 28 – July 6, 2025
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Starts at $40.25
Runtime
2 Hours, No Intermission
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PATRICK BALL IS HAMLET IN ROBERT O'HARA'S ADAPTATION
“So…once more… tell me about this Ghost.”
That’s how the legendary story begins. But ghosts are tricky things. Especially in a world of madness, murder, and mayhem. A rich, entitled Prince goes on a ferocious rampage that will lead to a massacre in the living room. Is he a tragic hero as we’ve often been told? Or a royal-blooded serial killer? In this brisk and intense excavation of the classic text with new scenes and characters, we will step into a forensic investigation of the ultimate crimes of passion to see what really went down.
It’s been half a century since Hamlet was produced at the Taper, and Tony Award®-nominated visionary Robert O’Hara, director of the landmark box office hit Slave Play, returns to stage a world premiere modern adaptation of one of the most famous tales ever told. Featuring Patrick Ball (The Pitt) in the titular role, joined by Gina Torres (Suits) as Gertrude and Coral Peña (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord) as Ophelia. Experience Hamlet with an unexpected twist.
Recommended for ages 16 and up.
Photo by David Goddard.
"I’m terribly excited to be closing out Snehal Desai’s first season with Hamlet. I’m diving deep into my love of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Salvador Dali, and Perry Mason to tell this story. I like my Shakespeare tragedies lean, brisk, and intense. There will be blood."
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CalendarHamlet
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Robert O’Hara
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Hamlet
Head Attendant
Detective Fortinbras
Gravedigger
Laertes, Rosencrantz
Polonius
Ophelia
Horatio
Claudius
First Player, Attendant
Gertrude
Guildenstern
u/s Hamlet
u/s Ophelia
u/s Head Attendant/Gertrude
u/s Claudius/Polonius
u/s Horatio
u/s Laertes/Rosencrantz
u/s Guildenstern/First Player
u/s Gravedigger/Detective Fortinbras
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Patrick Ball in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Gina Torres and Patrick Ball in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Gina Torres and Fidel Gomez in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Jakeem Powell and Patrick Ball in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Ty Molbak and Danny Zuhlke in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Patrick Ball and Coral Peña in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Gina Torres and Coral Peña in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
Patrick Ball in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Patrick Ball, Ramiz Monsef, and Gina Torres in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
Ariel Shafir and the company of HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
Jaime Lincoln Smith in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
L to R: Patrick Ball and Ramiz Monsef in HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
Patrick Ball and the company of HAMLET at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jeff Lorch.
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 9, 2025)— Center Theatre Group presents the premiere of a new, Hitchcockian noir take on Hamlet by William Shakespeare, from director Robert O’Hara. The production will run May 28 to July 6, 2025 (press opening June 4) at the Mark Taper Forum, as the sixth offering of Center Theatre Group’s One CTG. One LA. Season, from Artistic Director Snehal Desai, Managing Director/CEO Meghan Pressman, and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker.
May 21–22, 2025
Boyle Heights Libraries
Inspired by our production of Hamlet, join us for an engaging workshop where participants will explore Shakespeare’s heightened text through voice and movement.
June 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
The Music Center Annex
A séance? No, but close enough. Consider yourself summoned to resurrect Shakespeare's 500 year old language in an actor's workshop setting with Ariel Shafir (currently onstage at the Mark Taper Forum as Claudius in Robert O’Hara’s new adaptation of Hamlet).
S. Mark Taper Foundation
2024/25 season programming at the Mark Taper Forum is made possible through the generous support of the S. Mark Taper Foundation.
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