{"id":241282,"date":"2026-05-23T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:48:11","slug":"shakespeare-in-the-park-kicks-off-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241282\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in the Park kicks off on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CENTRAL PARK \u2014 THIS SUMMER\u2019S FREE Shakespeare in the Park season kicks off on Friday night at Central Park\u2019s Delacorte Theater with the first performance of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d \u2014 and more ticket distributions in Brooklyn than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to see the performances are, as always, free, and are distributed in person and online. Would-be Shakespeare-goers can either wait in line at the Delacorte, enter an online or in-person lottery at the Public Theater, or get a ticket at a distribution site across the five boroughs, an offering that has been expanded this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d tickets will be distributed at locations across Brooklyn, including Brooklyn Public Library and Citizen Bank branches, on ten dates this summer: May 26, 28 and 31, and June 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 27. More details and specific locations may be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/info-faqpt.helpscoutdocs.com\/article\/591-brooklyn-borough-distributions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Public Theater\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, after the Delacorte reopened following two years of renovations, New Yorkers began lining up overnight outside Central Park in the hope of snagging a sought-after free ticket to \u201cTwelfth Night.\u201d The Public Theater \u201cstrongly discourages\u201d lining up before 6 a.m., when the park opens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare in the Park is an annual, free outdoor season of performances run by the Public Theater. \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d will run through June 11. The second show of the season will be \u201cThe Winter\u2019s Tale,\u201d which opens on July 25 and runs through Aug. 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRAL PARK \u2014 THIS SUMMER\u2019S FREE Shakespeare in the Park season kicks off on Friday night at Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2571,3302,98,100,99,4709,9,24,63,79564],"class_list":["post-241282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-central-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}