Feb 4, 2024
Manifest (Season Three)
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Manifest (Season Three)
'Hamlet,' Kenny Leon's Dynamite Version, Free Shakespeare in the Park
Ato Blankson-Wood in Hamlet (Joan Marcus) There are more iterations of Hamlet presented globally in the last fifty years than are “dreamt of in your philosophy.” To that point director Kenny Leon’s version of Hamlet, currently at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park until August 6th, provides an intriguing update of the son for whom time is so “out of joint,” he is unable to seamlessly and…
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"She was the seductive queen of Egypt and he one of the generals of Rome. Their tempestuous love affair would tear empires apart. Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights, Soul Food) and Esau Pritchett (Fences) join director Emily Mann for this sizzling production of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, one of literature's great masterpieces. Full of romance, passion, and betrayal, don't miss this intimate tale of two legendary lovers whose desires shaped the destiny of the world."
"Indeed, if Romeo and Juliet is the Bard's take on the perils and passions of first love, Antony & Cleopatra is his ode to the smoldering and complex nature of last love. It is the work of a master playwright at the top of his game."
The cast also includes Philippe Bowgen as Agrippa, Keith Eric Chappelle as Soothsayer/Menas, Zainab Jah as Charmian, Mairin Lee as Iras/Octavia, Warner Miller as Eros, Everett Quinton as Mardian/Clown, Tobias Segal as Octavius Caesar, Thom Sesma as Lepidus/Scarus/Diomedes and Michael Siberry as Enobarbus.
Warner Miller, Mahershala Ali and Theo Rossi
by Carol Rocamora “I’d rather make $800 playing a maid than $8 a week being one.” Those were the fighting words of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American ever to win an Academy Award (for the role of “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind, 1939). And now, years later, playwright Lynn Nottage has […]
Review by Carol Rocamora: By the Way Meet Vera Stark features Jessica Frances Dukes, Jenni Barber, Heather Alicia Simms; meticulous research by Lynn Nottage