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Will Oscar Isaac Play Hamlet in NYC? Oscar Isaac ( Inside Llewyn Davis , Ex Machina ) might be headed back to the stage. The Daily Mail reports that Isaac will play Hamlet in a Theatre for a New Audience production to be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold ( Fun Home , John ). Isaac is no stranger to the stage, having trained at Julliard and appeared in off-Broadway productions such as We Live Here . A spokesman for the Brooklyn-based theatre company says he "has no information" about the production. The Daily Mail suspects it will be announced when the 2016-2017 is announced, and Broadway.com speculates that Hamlet will bow in spring 2017. Oscars Wrap Up Well, it finally happened: Leonardo DiCaprio won a much deserved, long overdue Academy Award. (Of course, no one is entitled to an Oscar, but DiCaprio is the best of his generation and continually turns in performances that seem to get better and better. Couple that with the knowledge of the people who won over ...

Thank Thespis for producers (like Kevin McCollum ) who bring fearless plays like Robert Askins 's  Hand to God  to Broadway. After a celebrated run off-Broadway, Hand to God  moves uptown, which is a good thing for savvy theatergoers. Taking place "nowish" in Texas, Hand to God  looks in on Jason (Steven Boyer), an adolescent who recently lost his father. His mother, Margery ( Geneva Carr ), is channeling her grief into teaching puppet-making at the church, and Jason is a natural, creating his hand puppet, Tyrone. And then Tyrone gets a mind of his own. Toward the end of the play, Pastor Greg (the always welcome Marc Kudisch ) tells Jason that "every man has only one voice, and he has to learn how to use it." Indeed, that is, essentially, what Jason is learning to do throughout. Tyrone is id incarnate (sort of); he has no filter and seems possessed (there's talk of an exorcism). But in truth, Tyrone is saying the things Jason can't.  Like tellin...