By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic New York’s Public Theater has canceled this year’s free Shakespeare in the Park season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first summer in 58 years that Central Park’s Delacorte Theater will stay dark.
The 2020 summer season was set to include a production of Richard II, directed by Saheem Ali, and a return four-engagement run of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery’s popular and critically acclaimed 2017 musical adaptation of As You Like It. “While our stages will remain dark,” The Public said in a seven-tweet statement, “our commitment to our mission will burn brighter than ever.
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