{"id":273172,"date":"2026-06-21T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:31:15","slug":"the-winters-tale-delacorte-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273172\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winter&#8217;s Tale | Delacorte Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following\u00a0Romeo &amp; Juliet, the second offering of Shakespeare in the Park&#8217;s 2026 summer season\u00a0offers\u00a0somewhat happier\u00a0hopes for lovers. A sweeping\u00a0story of jealousy, love, repentance, angry bears and magic statuary, it begins in deep suffering\u00a0but ends, like winter itself, with the prospect of healing and rebirth. Ra\u00fal Esparza plays the paranoid\u00a0Leontes and Lily Rabe is his unjustly accused wife, Hermione, supported by Chuck Cooper, Teagle F. Bougere,\u00a0Steven Skybell and Isabela Ferrer. Helming the production is\u00a0that old master Daniel Sullivan\u2014who, at 86, has directed eleven previous Shakespeare in the Park, along with such Broadway favorites as\u00a0The Heidi Chronicles,\u00a0Good People\u00a0and\u00a0Proof.\u00a0Tickets are free, of course; see our complete guide to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/shakespeare-tickets-how-to-get-free-tickets-to-the-delacorte\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare in the Park tickets<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following\u00a0Romeo &amp; Juliet, the second offering of Shakespeare in the Park&#8217;s 2026 summer season\u00a0offers\u00a0somewhat happier\u00a0hopes for lovers. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47764,7746,7743,2525,9,56,63,65,64,102615,905,48296],"class_list":["post-273172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-event-type-off-broadway","tag-event-type-plays-shows","tag-featured-theater-featured","tag-good-for-vibe-outdoors","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-price-free","tag-theater","tag-theater-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273172","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=273172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}