Oscar Isaac is heading back to the New York stage to star in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a year after he was originally due to tread the boards.
The Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor had initially been billed to tackle the classic play last year (16) for a production at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, but director Sam Gold pulled the project after experiencing creative differences with producers at the Theatre for a New Audience.
Now he has taken the tragedy to officials at the Public Theater, where Oscar will now portray the doomed Prince of Denmark this summer (17).
He will be joined by comedian Keegan-Michael Key in his Big Apple stage debut as Horatio, alongside fellow castmembers Roberta Colindrez, Peter Friedman, Gayle Rankin, Matthew Saldivar, and Anatol Yusef.
The revival of Hamlet will begin previews on 20 June (17) and run until 3 September (17).
Oscar previously appeared in productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona in 2005 and Romeo and Juliet in 2007 for the Public Theater’s popular Shakespeare in the Park events.
He last collaborated with Gold in 2011 on the Off Broadway play We Live Here.
