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The Public Theater Sets Traveling Free Shakespeare in the Park Schedule for Summer 2024

The Public Theater will present GO PUBLIC! A Festival of Free Shakespeare in the Park, featuring a suite of free summer programming taking place across all five boroughs. Learn more about The Public's summer 2024 season.

Photos: Go Inside Opening Night of HAMLET at Free Shakespeare in the Park

Check out photos from opening night of Hamlet at Free Shakespeare in the Park!

Review Roundup: Ato Blankson-Wood & More Star In HAMLET At Free Shakespeare in the Park

Read reviews for The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of HAMLET, directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon featuring Tony nominee Ato Blankson-Wood in the title role.

Photos: First Look at Ato Blankson-Wood & More in HAMLET at Free Shakespeare in the Park

Get a first look at photos of The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of HAMLET!

HAMLET at Free Shakespeare in the Park to Begin Performances Tomorrow

The Public Theater's upcoming production of Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet will begin performances tomorrow, Saturday, June 10 at 8pm ET. 

HAMLET at Shakespeare in the Park Cancels Previews Due to Bad Air Quality in NYC

A rehearsal for Shakespeare in the Park's Hamlet was canceled due to the poor air quality in New York City. 

Photos: See Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfeiffer & More in Rehearsals for HAMLET at Free Shakespeare in the Park

Get a first look inside rehearsals for Hamlet at Free Shakespeare in the Park!

Photos: Go Inside Rehearsals for HAMLET at Free Shakespeare in the Park

Check out rehearsal photos for The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of HAMLET.

World Premiere Of TEA Artistry's BEING CHAKA Opens Tonight

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater's Archive Residency world premiere of TÉA Artistry's BEING CHAKA opens tonight, and runs through May 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

New Ohio Theatre Presents the World Premiere of TEA Artistry's BEING CHAKA

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater present the Archive Residency world premiere of TEA Artistry's BEING CHAKA, running May 6 - 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

World Premiere Of TEA Artistry's BEING CHAKA Comes to the New Ohio Theatre

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater will present the Archive Residency world premiere of TÉA Artistry's BEING CHAKA, May 6 - 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City. Previews begin May 6 for a May 8 opening.

Kennedy Kanagawa Featured in KINSLEY VS. Digital Comedy Series

Kennedy Kanagawa (Milky White in Broadway’s hit revival and upcoming national tour of Into the Woods) rounds out the ensemble cast of the original, digital comedy series, 'KINSLEY VS.' created, written, and directed by Courtney Romano, and produced by Queens Bird Films. Actress and body positivity model Lauren Karaman (“Project Runway”) stars.

ALL ARTS Artist In Residence Festival Series Launches With Powerful Films By Four Rising NYC-Based Artists

ALL ARTS, the multimedia platform covering visual art, music, theater, dance, film and literature, premieres four film projects from Le'Andra LeSeur, DonChristian Jones, Jonathan McCrory, and Matthew Whitaker commissioned as part of its 2022 Artist in Residence program.

Full Cast Announced for BROADWAY BARES: TWERK FROM HOME

A company of Broadway Bares favorites and newcomers more than 170 strong will combine forces to light up screens for Broadway Bares: Twerk from Home in its online premiere Sunday, June 20, 2021.

The Assembly's Deceleration Lab Continues With Nehassaiu DeGannes' Ebb & Lo'

The second and final showing of new work developed in The Assembly's Deceleration Lab is TONIGHT (Saturday, December 19th) at 7pm ET/4pm PT! Lab artist Nehassaiu deGannes' has assembled over two dozen artists to collaborate on EBB & lo', a devised exigesis of the life and writing of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

DE FRENTE PRODUCTIONS Goes Online

De Frente Productions is a new company founded by two Argentinian women, Ivi Uman and Camila Zitelli. Both graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and proceeded to finish their Bachelor in Fine Arts at The New School in Manhattan.

VIDEO: Watch The Public Theater's Full Production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Starring Danielle Brooks and Grantham Coleman

The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare In The Park production of Much Ado About Nothing was broadcast on PBS' Great Performances, on November 22.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's IN THE HEIGHTS Completes The 2019 Broadway At Music Circus Season

The final show in the 2019 season is the Broadway At Music Circus premiere of In The Heights, a multiple Tony Award-winning Best Musical from Lin-Manual Miranda, creator of the smash hit Hamilton, running Tuesday, Aug. 20 through Sunday, Aug. 25 at the Wells Fargo Pavilion in Sacramento.

VIDEO: Danielle Brooks Wants to Bring MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING to Broadway

Danielle Brooks was a guest on Wednesday night's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers to talk about performing in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing and the final season of Orange Is the New Black.

PBS Great Performances Will Film MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING in the Park

BroadwayWorld has just learned that PBS Great Performances will film tonight's performance of The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, to be broadcast at a later date.