Kenny Leon’s Hamlet Playing In NYC’s Shakespeare in the Park
Currently playing from The Public Theater is its Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Shakespeare’s classic drama HAMLET.
Directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, HAMLET is running at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park through Sunday, August 6.
Among the cast includes Ato Blankson-Wood (Hamlet), Lorraine Toussaint (Gertrude), John Douglas Thompson (Claudius), Solea Pfeiffer (Ophelia), Daniel Pearce (Polonius), and Warner Miller (Horatio).
In 2019, director Kenny Leon’s entrancing production of Much Ado About Nothing was widely adored and heralded as “delicious & powerful” by The New York Times. Returning once again to Free Shakespeare in the Park, Leon commands The Delacorte stage with a nine-week, tour-de-force production of the Bard’s masterpiece, HAMLET, a riveting, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of family and betrayal, as enduring as the stars above Central Park.
“I’m so happy to be at The Delacorte once again and to share something that binds us to one another,” said director Kenny Leon. “A 400-year-old play exploring the need for a strong foundation of family, with music and words, Shakespeare’s Hamlet has much to say about humanity and the importance of our connectedness to each other. We set this production in 2021, filled with all of the challenges we face as Americans as we explore our need to love more profoundly both nature and its people.”
Free tickets are distributed in a variety of ways across all five boroughs. Free tickets to HAMLET may be acquired on the day of the performance in person at The Delacorte Theater, in person at a borough distribution site, via an in-person lottery in the lobby of The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street, or through a digital lottery via the TodayTix mobile app.
