Tag: theater

On tap this weekend: Storytelling and a performance of Richard II in Central Park; Jane Austin in Riverside Park; and a tour of St. John the Divine

A key element of a normal New York summer is coming back in just a few months. Shakespeare in the Park will return this summer, with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor taking

The show will go on — if not on the Great White Way, then on the Mall in Central Park.

Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is a famous annual tradition. But the Upper West Side gets more than just one Shakespeare fest every year.

Come ye come ye to Central Park's Delacorte Theatre to enjoy some free Shakespeare, starting Tuesday. Julius Caesar is in

After 15 years as a movable feast, New Stage Theatre Company, the award-winning brainchild of Budapesti transplant and Actors Studio alumnus Ildiko Nemeth,

This summer's Shakespeare in the Park shows will be Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Public Theater announced on Tuesday.

On most days, the Upper West Side is as sexy as pickled herring (Va-va-voom!) and as scary as the rent on a two-bedroom with a view of the park (Yikes!).

It's almost free theater season in Central and Riverside Parks and there are some exciting offerings this year -- including Sam Waterston and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in The Tempest and Steve Guttenberg in Henry IV, Part 1.

Shakespeare in the Park kicked off last week with performances of Much Ado About Nothing, a romance starring Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe.

Shakespeare in the Park's latest show Love's Labour Lost remains a very hot ticket, as evidenced by the line stretching almost to the Reservoir this morning at 9 a.m. The play is a musical that modernizes Shakespeare's play about four men who swear off romance. The reviews we've seen were ...

Two outdoor theater productions are just starting up, and both are free to the public. One performance is a series of three short Bertolt Brecht plays, performed by the Elephant Run District company at the southeast corner of the Great Hill in Central Park (West side of the park between ...

You know how they say "the show must go on"? Well, not when bedbugs are biting the actors.

By Kimberly Lew Forget groundhogs-- it seems that the best indicator of the changing seasons is when Shakespeare begins emerging in all shapes and forms around the city. The Upper West Side alone hosts all sorts of summer Shakespeare fare, from Shakespeare in the Park to Shakespeare in the Parking ...

Take the two finest actors of their generation, put them on a famous outdoor stage in Central Park, and have them perform a dramatic reading of Shakespeare's greatest love story. Kevin Kline will play Romeo and Meryl Streep will play Juliet in a gala to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ...

It's a not-so-secret secret among theater and opera fans: there are lots of inexpensive tickets available to see some great performances at Lincoln Center. In fact, it can be just about as cheap to catch a show at the Metropolitan Opera as it is to see a movie at the ...

New York City Opera's decision to leave Lincoln Center for its upcoming season was very controversial and union members are still fighting the move. But the opera just announced its schedule for next season, and there's at least one very cool idea in it. The opera company is planning to ...