GARY BUSEY'S ONE-MAN HAMLET Returning to NYC

Having triumphed in Celebrity Big Brother, survived Dancing with the Stars, and battled with Meatloaf and Donald Trump, Keanu Reeves' favorite co-star takes on his biggest challenge yet: proving that he still has the 'acting chops' by performing all the parts in Hamlet with songs, multimedia and home-made puppets in his own personal tribute to Shakespeare's 400th birthday in 2016.

Switching between beat poet narrator, puppeteer, singer, and action-movie director, Gary Busey (as imagined by David Carl) plays each scene in the style he feels appropriate. This mix of high and low-brow comedy celebrates Shakespeare's play by proving it is still relevant, applicable and moving in the jaded, celebrity-crazy, meme-obsessed world that we (and David Carl) live in.

Written by David Carl (after Shakespeare) and co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino.

The smash hit of the New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, "Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet" won the Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the New York Fringe in 2014, and received 5-star reviews this past August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show will begin extensive North America Touring in 2016, including performances at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater - proving that "Where there's a Bard, there's a Busey!"