Playbill.comPublic Theater Celebrates World Refugee Day TonightPlaybill.comThe Public Theater and International Rescue Committee present Welcome Home: A Celebration of World Refugee Day June 20 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The one-night-on…
New York Times |
Theater|Is ‘Shrew’ Worth Taming? Female Directors Keep Trying
New York Times Open your program at the Delacorte, and you’ll find a prominent note from the Public Theater’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis. Shakespeare in the Park has done “Shrew” in the past — Meryl Streep played Kate opposite Raul Julia as Petruchio in 1978 … |
American Theatre |
Angela Paton: A Fierce Presence Onstage, a Modest One Off
American Theatre It also staged experimental music-theatre festivals and provided an early home for many young actors and designers, as well as such now noted directors as Tony Taccone and Oskar Eustis, long before they joined up to commission Tony Kushner’s Angels in … |
American Theatre |
Angela Paton: A Fierce Presence Onstage, a Modest One Off
American Theatre It also staged experimental music-theatre festivals and provided an early home for many young actors and designers, as well as such now noted directors as Tony Taccone and Oskar Eustis, long before they joined up to commission Tony Kushner’s Angels in … |
Jezebel |
The Taming of the Shrew, This Time Told By Shrews
Jezebel “One of the sad things we often encounter in the Park is the relative paucity of women’s roles: in Shakespeare’s theater, women couldn’t appear on stage, and were played by boys or young men,” the Public’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis wrote of the … |
TheaterMania.com |
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Bobby Cannavale Join Public Theater’s World Refugee Day Forum
TheaterMania.com The Public Theater and International Rescue Committee have announced additional casting for its upcoming Public Forum event, Welcome Home: A Celebration of World Refugee Day, to take place on June 20 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. |
Huffington Post |
The Delacorte Tries ‘Taming the Shrew’ by Giving the Job to Women
Huffington Post In the Playbill’s opening note, Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis writes that Shrew “is the only major Shakespeare play which I have never produced or directed.” Why? “The reason is simple: I have never been able to get behind the central … The Taming of the Shrew, This Time Told By ShrewsJezebel |
PGH City Paper |
Venus in Fur at Pittsburgh Public Theater
PGH City Paper It’s been some time since I’ve had such a flat-out blast at the theater. By Ted Hoover. Christian Conn and Whitney Maris Brown. Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Public Theater. Christian Conn and Whitney Maris Brown … |
Playbill.com |
Turning the Misogyny of Shakespeare’s Shrew on its Head
Playbill.com In Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis‘ program notes, he confesses why he never approached the show previously: “Because Shrew seemed to me to not only be about a misogynist world, but also asks us to celebrate the essential action of … Review of Shakespeare in the Park’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Public’s Delacorte TheaterNew York Theatre Guide Janet McTeer Discovers Her Masculine Side in The Taming of the ShrewTheaterMania.com |
TheaterMania.com |
Janet McTeer Discovers Her Masculine Side in The Taming of the Shrew
TheaterMania.com When the stars aligned, a call was placed to the Public’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis. And now, as McTeer says, “here we are.” Janet McTeer as Petruchio in Phyllida Lloyd's free Shakespeare in the Park Janet McTeer as Petruchio in Phyllida … Review of Shakespeare in the Park’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Public’s Delacorte TheaterNew York Theatre Guide |
