Actor

Director

Returning once again to Free Shakespeare in the Park, director Kenny Leon commands The Delacorte stage with a nine-week, tour-de-force production of the Bard’s masterpiece, HAMLET, a riveting, contemporary present-day take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of family and betrayal, as enduring as the stars above Central Park. 

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Hamlet

The Delacorte Theater

In anticipation of this summer’s production of HAMLET in Central Park, we’ve invited artists from The Public Theater’s past and future to ask, why does this play matter? Why does its central role continue to attract artists to perform, interpret, adapt, interrogate, and transform it? How does the play ask us to re-examine the deepest questions of identity, love, responsibility, memory, imagination, and family.? 

Public Shakespeare Talks: Let’s Talk About Hamlet

Joe's Pub

In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi’s old prison-mate, is a mysterious complication. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

Ato Blankson-Wood

Actor, Director

Events

Jun 8 - Aug 6, 2023

Hamlet · Public Theater

May 1, 2023

Public Shakespeare Talks: Let’s Talk About Hamlet · Public Theater

Apr 27 - May 30, 2023

The Brothers Size · Oklahoma City Repertory Theater

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