The Winter's Tale
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 6, 2000
Closed Jul 16, 2000
Opened Jul 6, 2000
Closed Jul 16, 2000
Directions & Map
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Summertime in New York means only one thing to avid theatergoers, Shakespeare in The Park. The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, George C. Wolfe, Producer, kicks off its 45th season of free theater in Central Park with The Winter's Tale. Shakespeare's romantic, magical play, deals with loss and recovery. Combining tragedy, comedy, and adventure, this magnificent work celebrates forgiveness and the transcendent, redemptive power of love. The cast is led by Randy Danson, Keith David, Aunjanue Ellis, and Bronson Pinchot.
Free tickets to Shakespeare in Central Park are available on the day of the performance beginning at 1 pm at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, or from 1-3 pm at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. Each person may receive up to two tickets.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
The Delacorte Theater
New York, NY 10023
The Delacorte Theater is located near Turtle Pond, just south of the Great Lawn, in Central Park. The closest Park entrance from the East Side is Fifth Avenue at 79th Street; from the West Side, Central Park West at 81st Street.
New York, NY 10023
The Delacorte Theater is located near Turtle Pond, just south of the Great Lawn, in Central Park. The closest Park entrance from the East Side is Fifth Avenue at 79th Street; from the West Side, Central Park West at 81st Street.
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No matter how towering, how overpowering Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, and histories are, they often seem overwritten and underwritten at the same time, rife with odd inconsistencies. That they are not "well-made" plays can be attributed to many factors. Not the least of them are the pressures under which the dramatist labored--the deadlines for Globe first nights, fast approaching events at court. Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman probably hit the Elizabethan nail on the head when they speculate throughout Shakespeare in Love about how Romeo and Juliet came to be.
The colorful heap that is The Winter's Tale--lifted, incidentally, from an early novel by Robert Greene called Pandosto: The [...]