Shakespeare in the Park News and Sponsorship Opportunities

There is nothing better than catching a “Shakespeare in the Park” performance on a great NYC summer night in Central Park !!!! If I was a Bloomberg rich, the program would definitely be one of my choice charities. The free performances on a first come first serve basis are a profound statement about our society.

Gregory
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BECOME A SUMMER SUPPORTER AND SKIP THE LINE!

We need your help to keep free Shakespeare free!
Make a $175 tax-deductible donation and receive a reserved seat for the 2012 Shakespeare in the Park Season. In order to keep the highest number of free seats available for the general public, a limited number of reserved Summer Supporter seats are available.

Click here to view the performance calendar for both productions. Please have three date choices ready when making your donation.

To make a Summer Supporter donation and secure your seats to Shakespeare in the Park, click here, or call the Public Theater Box Office at 212-967-7555 .

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK 2012
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF THE DELACORTE THEATER

AS YOU LIKE IT
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Featuring MacIntyre Dixon, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Omar Metwally, and Lily Rabe

June 5 - 30

In As You Like It, Rosalind, Shakespeare's most breathtaking heroine, and her boyfriend Orlando find themselves in the enchanted Forest of Arden, where all the world's a stage, and where sudden infatuation is as confusing as it is beautiful. Along with other "country copulatives," they discover that nothing transforms, redeems, or enriches experience quite as powerfully as love. As You Like It has everything we adore about Shakespearean comedy: mistaken identity, cross-dressing, madness, mayhem, rage, lust, laughter, and of course plenty of romance, both heartbreaking and joyous.

INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Timothy Sheader
Co-Directed by Liam Steel

July 23 - August 25

In Into the Woods, a witch's curse condemns the Baker and his Wife to a life without children. They embark on a quest to find the four items required to break the spell: the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold. Will they succeed? And what happens after "happily ever after?" A Tony Award-winning masterpiece by musical theater giants Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Into the Woods is a witty and irreverent reimagining of beloved classic fairytales: Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Cinderella.

This production is based on the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre London Production produced by Timothy Sheader and William Village for Regent's Park Theatre Ltd.

For more information about this summer's season, visit shakespeareinthepark.org.

50th ANNIVERSARY FELLOWS PROGRAM
Help us celebrate this milestone year by upgrading your Membership and becoming a part of our new Fellows Program. In addition to the benefits you enjoy downtown throughout the year, you will receive reserved seats to Shakespeare in the Park, invitations to special events, and more. Fellows Program levels start at $200. For more information, click here, or call 212-967-7555 .