{"id":315696,"date":"2026-08-07T01:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:13:45","slug":"get-a-1st-look-at-the-winters-tale-at-free-shakespeare-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315696\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a 1st Look at The Winter’s Tale at Free Shakespeare in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

A starry\u00a0The Winter’s Tale<\/a> is at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater via The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park, and Playbill has\u00a0a first look at the Daniel Sullivan-directed production. Take a look at the production, running through August 23 and officially opening August 11, in the gallery below.<\/p>\n

Leading the cast are Ra\u00fal Esparza<\/a> (of Broadway’s upcoming Galileo<\/a>) as Leontes and Lily Rabe<\/a> (of the upcoming Other Desert Cities) as Hermione. Other cast members include Chuck Cooper<\/a> as Old Shepherd, Teagle F. Bougere<\/a> as Camillo, Matthew Eby as Mamillius and Time, Isabela Ferrer as Perdita, Katie Griffith<\/a> as Mopsa, Alex Hernandez as Cleomenes, Michael Khalid Karadsheh as Young Shepherd, Daniel Kyri as Florizel, Aubie Merrylees<\/a> as Archidamus, Jennifer Mogbock as Emilia, Gilbert Owuor as Polixenes, Matthew Russell as Dion, and Steven Skybell<\/a> as Antigonus and Autolycus. Completing the company are ensemblists Heschel Bay, Denise Kolodja, Violeta Picayo, Bianca Rogoff, Michael Thanh Tran, and Jackson Whitman; and musician Peter Douskalis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The outdoor production also features scenic design by Maruti Evans<\/a>, costume design by Linda Cho<\/a>, sound design by Brian Ronan<\/a>, music by Tom Kitt<\/a>, hair and wig design by Tom Watson<\/a>, sound system design by Mike Tracey<\/a>, puppet design by James Ortiz, and prop management by Rachel Kenner. Caroline Englander serves as production stage manager, with Jessie Moore<\/a> and Luisa S\u00e1nchez Col\u00f3n<\/a> as stage managers. Lieber also serves as associate director.<\/p>\n

As always, tickets to The Winter’s Tale and the entirety of the Free Shakespeare in the Park season are available for free. Tickets are distributed on the day of each performance in-person at the Delacorte, and at borough distribution sites, including many dates at branches of Citizens Bank. Producing company The Public Theater<\/a> also offers an in-person lottery at the theatre’s East Village venue, and a digital lottery via the TodayTix smartphone app. A limited number of advance tickets are available by making a donation to the company’s Free Shakespeare in the Park series.<\/p>\n

Full ticketing details are at PublicTheater.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A starry\u00a0The Winter’s Tale is at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater via The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-315696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315696","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=315696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}