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While Hollywood is hittingPeak TV, New York theater is somewhere near PeakHamlet.
Expand the scope further and you could includethe opera at the Metand pre-pandemic forays to Elsinore starringRuth NeggaandOscar Isaac.
Leon bringsHamletto the present-day American South.
He and the production do improve, however, when it comes toHamlets play-acting side.
Here, Leon pokes at an engaging strand of class dynamics and includes new songs by Jason Michael Webb.
Yet Leon doesnt capitalize on the possibility.
With Hamlet and the players, those insertions are intriguing.
Hamletis at the Delacorte Theater through August 6.
