For Lupita and Junior Nyong’o, ‘Twelfth Night’ Is Child’s Play, Revisited

The siblings “really enjoyed make-believe” as kids. Now they are playing Shakespeare under the stars at the newly reopened Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

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Inside the $85 Million Renovation of Central Park’s Home for Shakespeare

A combination of preservation and polish aims to make the Delacorte Theater a better experience for the performers and audiences.

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Free Shakespeare’s Central Park Home Gets an $85 Million Glow Up

The rickety, beloved Delacorte Theater, built in 1962, leaked and was popular with raccoons. Now it’s a modern facility and still charmingly wild.

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Review: How Music Came Down to Earth, in ‘Goddess’

Amber Iman lives up to the title of a musical about the divine gift of song.

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Amid Trump Cuts, Officials Resign From the National Endowment for the Arts

Senior officials announced their resignations after the Trump administration withdrew grants from arts organizations around the country.

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‘Goddess’ Brings Kenyan Folklore to New York

Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been nearly 20 years in the making.

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For the Actors of ‘Sumo,’ Learning Lines Was Just the Half of It

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

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As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril

Workers say the move is overdue, but theater companies fear it will drive up costs in a wounded sector that has yet to recover from the pandemic.

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