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Shakespeare in the Park’s Return Reflects How New York City and Its Theater Institutions Are Changing

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Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park, the 67-year-old institution that is an annual signpost of summer — and this year, of a return to in-person life — for both the theater and for the civic fabric of New York City.When “Merry Wives,” a new version of the Bard comedy set in a South Harlem community of West African immigrants, begins performances in Central Park July 6, it arrives informed by all the tumult of the past 18 months.

The production aims to be a celebration intended not only as lively communal release from the grief and hardship of coronavirus, but also as a bold embrace of Black joy following the national reckoning over equity and racial justice that was sparked by the murder of George Floyd.

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