The Delacorte Theater, Central Park’s open air amphitheater home to New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park, contains nearly 2,000 seats. Each summer, those seats hold New Yorkers who’ve come to co…
’s free summer ritual—an exercise, the theater’s late founder Joe Papp would argue, in public art as democracy.“Over the past year and a half, all of us have liked to say, ‘the Delacorte isn’t empty. It’s full of hope that we’ll all be together again,’” The Public’s board chairMonday evening. “I just love when hope becomes a reality.”last bow and to fete the donors who keep the nonprofit breathing, the Public held its annual gala on the lawn of Central Park.
Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Krakowski, David Harbour, Rachel Dratch, Jenn ColellaDavid Harbour at the 2021 Public Theater Gala at the Delacorte TheaterOf course, exactly what Shakespeare that New Yorkers consume at the Delacorte — and whether that public offering meets the diversity and vibrancy of its city — is a constant charge levied on the New York institution: While gala attendees and donors lined up for the open bar and sat down to dinner served in picnic...
“Shakespeare has never been straight,” he said. “The script isn’t the art form. It’s the performance. When people say straight Shakespeare, they usually mean what the 1950s thought Shakespeare looked like. The theater is always and everywhere in a specific time and place, and so you’re always interpreting.
the late founder’s wife and producing partner, who in many ways founded the field of dramaturgy, read from her husband’s writing in summary: “As William Shakespeare widely said, ‘The city is the people.’ And to that I say, Amen.”
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