The return of Shakespeare in the Park to New York’s Central Park last summer was a first sign of the city’s slow and long-in-coming reopening, and now the entire, difficult 12-week journey to the stage of the acclaimed is chronicled in the HBO documentary Reopening Night.HBO released a trailer for the film today.
Watch it above.The film, directed by Rudy Valdez (HBO’s The Sentence), follows the cast, crew and staff of the Public Theater production as they ready their return to the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Among the obstacles: Covid, of course, along with the rainiest July on New York City’s records. All this as the theater industry reckoned with issues of racism both within its own history and society at large following
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