The Performing Arts: Reopening and Returning to a Changed World
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Join Public Theater Artistic Director and Aspen Institute Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence Oskar Eustis and Saheem Ali, The Public’s associate artistic director and resident director, as they mark the reopening of one of its most storied venues — the Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park — for The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park. Speaking from the Delacorte for the first time since the start of the pandemic, they discuss the return of theater to a changed world, the continued relevance of Shakespeare’s plays, and and their upcoming production directed by Ali with Jocelyn Bioh’s exciting adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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