Jude Law Set To Play Hamlet On Broadway This Fall

Jude Law will play Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane on Broadway this fall.

The 36-year-old British actor will star in “Hamlet,” opening Oct. 6 at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York for a 12-week engagement. Previews begin Sept. 12.

It will be Law’s first Broadway appearance since 1995, when he appeared in “Indiscretions” with Kathleen Turner, Cynthia Nixon, Roger Rees and Eileen Atkins.