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AS YOU LIKE IT - General Entry - Free Shakespeare in the Park
As You Like It Tickets

As You Like It Tickets

New York
10 Aug 2022 - 11 Sep 2022
The iconic comedy gets a musical and uniquely New York spin.

As You Like It Information

After this production was canceled in 2020, The Public Theater rounds out its 60th anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season with a return of the Public Works' production of As You Like It, adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery, with a score by Shaina Taub. Check back for information on free As You Like It tickets.

Public Works’ As You Like It is an immersive tale of faithful friends, feuding families, and lovers in disguise. Forced from their homes, Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind, and niece Celia escape to the Forest of Arden, a fantastical place of transformation, where all are welcomed and embraced. Banished into the forest, they find community and acceptance under the stars.

Opening date

August 10th, 2022

Closing date

September 11th, 2022

Categories

Musical

Previews from

August 9th, 2022

Venue

Delacorte Theater

Cast and creative

By: William Shakespeare, adapted by Shaina Taub & Laurie Woolery, with Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub Director: Laurie Woolery Producer: Public Theater / Public Works Cast list: Damion Allen (as William), Tristan André (as De Boys/Attendant), Amar Atkins (as Understudy Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Ato Blankson-Wood (as Orlando), Lori Brown-Niang (as Agent/Puppet-deer), Sean-Michael Bruno (as Understudy De Boys), Brianna Cabrera (as Silvia), Darius de Haas (as Duke Senior), Bianca Edwards (as Phoebe), Danyel Fulton (as Understudy Rosalind/Phoebe), Emily Gardner Xu Hall (as Jaques Standby), Pierre Harmony Graves (as De Boys/Arden Dancer/Young Orlando Dad), Rebecca Naomi Jones (as Rosalind), Jonathan Jordan (as Andy), Trevor McGhie (as Understudy Orlando/Oliver), Mike Millán (as Understudy Touchstone/Andy), Bobby Moody (as De Boys/Arden Dancer), Renrick Palmer (as Oliver), Eric Pierre (as Duke Frederick), Idania Quezada (as Celia), Christopher M. Ramirez (as Touchstone), Edwin Rivera (as De Boys/Attendant), Kevin Tate (as Understudy De Boys Dancer), Shaina Taub (as Jaques), Claudia Yanez (as Understudy Celia/Silvia) Design: Myung Hee Cho Lighting: Isabella Byrd Costume: Emilio Sosa Choreography: Sonya Tayeh, with choreography restaging and additional choreography by Billy Griffin Sound: Sun Hee Kil

Our review

Review of AS YOU LIKE IT - General Entry - Free Shakespeare in the Park

'As You Like It' review — Shakespeare musical offers breezy summer fun

4/5

Situated amid the leafy splendor of Central Park, the Delacorte Theater offers an ideal open-air playground for As You Like It. In Shakespeare's comedy, after all, feuding families and mixed-up couples find forgiveness and "I do"-worthy clarity by going into the woods and savoring the rare and special vibe in the Forest of Arden.Call it reforestation at its best and most theatrical: The restorative grove has rooted again on the same Public Theater stage as part of Free Shakespeare in the Park....

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'As You Like It' sets full cast for Shakespeare in the Park

All the world's a stage, and all these men and women are its players! Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of As You Like It, which follows Richard III in The Public Theater's 2022 Shakespeare in the Park season, has set its full cast. Performances run at the Delacorte Theater from August 10 to September 11, with an August 30 opening night.Drama Desk Award nominee Rebecca Naomi Jones (Oklahoma!) and Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play, Long Day's Journey into Night) will lead As You...