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Review: Eddie Izzard's breakneck solo 'Hamlet' opts for cracking good storytelling over subtlety

by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES " To be or not to be, that is the question for a solo version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy. This Shakespearean traveling show, now at the Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood through Saturday, is a daredevil ...

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 7:30am on January 27, 2026