Oscar Isaac is hitting the stage, taking on Hamlet in an off-Broadway production opening in 2017.

Shakespeare’s timeless Hamlet continues to attract fan favorite actors. Early performers include Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton, with Christopher Walken, Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes later lending their souls to the iconic prince.

In recent years we have seen the likes of Mel Gibson, Jude Law, David Tennant and Michael Sheen in the role, and most recently, Benedict Cumberbatch could be seen as Hamlet at the Barbican in London.

Now, Oscar Isaac is picking up the mantle, in an off-Broadway production directed by Tony winner Sam Gold and performed at the Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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As anyone who follows Isaac’s career knows, this is not his first tangle with Shakespeare. Before his on-screen debut, Oscar Isaac played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and as Variety notes, he has previously worked with Sam Gold in Zoe Kazan’s We Live Here.

For Shakespeare newbies, the Hamlet tragedy is set in the Kingdom of Denmark, and follows Prince Hamlet, who is urged by the ghost of his father to wreak revenge upon his uncle Claudius. Claudius murdered Hamlet’s father, married Hamlet’s mother, and seized the throne for himself.

Oscar Isaac will debut as Hamlet in previews starting June 4, 2017, with a June 22, 2017 opening. No other cast members have yet been announced.

Isaac can of course also be seen in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VIII, and has been announced for the adaptation of Annihilation. Next up is X-Men: Apocalypse, where he plays the titular villain Apocalypse.