Sheader To Direct All-American Cast In INTO THE WOODS For Public Theater, New York

Timothy Sheader will direct and Liam Steel will co-direct Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods at New York's Delacorte Theater, Central Park, this Summer. This new Public Theater production will be based on the 2010 Olivier Award-winning Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production and will feature an entirely American cast.

Sheader and Executive Director, William Village, have overseen four seasons at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, each of which has, in turn, broken the record for attendance and Box Office takings. Their productions of Hello, Dolly! (2009) and Into the Woods (2010) both won the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival with Hello, Dolly! also picking up the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's 2011 production of Crazy For You transferred directly to the West End, where it continues to run until 17 March.

Liam Steel's appointment as Choreographer on the forthcoming film of Les Miserables means that Javier De Frutos will now choreograph the 2012 Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production of Ragtime alongside Timothy Sheader as director and Matthew Dunster will direct A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

Public Booking is now open for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's 2012 season: Ragtime (18 May – 8 September) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2 June – 5 September 2012).

Box Office: 0844 826 4242

Online Bookings: www.openairtheatre.com

For more information about The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, please visit www.shakespeareinthepark.org