The Public Theater continues a 56-year tradition with the 2018 Free Shakespeare in the Park season, kicking off with Shakespeare's timeless tragedy, Othello.
The Public Theater stages Othello at the Delacorte Theater in the heart of Central Park for the first time since 1991.
(Photos by Joan Marcus)
2hr 50min (incl. intermission)
May 29th, 2018
June 24th, 2018
By: William Shakespeare
Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Producer: Public Theater / Shakespeare in the Park
Cast list: Peter Jay Fernandez (as Duke of Venice), Motell Foster (as Roderigo), Andrew Hovelson (as Lodovico), Chukwudi Iwuji (as Othello), Heather Lind (as Desdemona), Flor De Liz Perez (as Bianca), Miguel Perez (as Brabantio), Thomas Schall (as Montano), Corey Stoll (as Iago), Babak Tafti (as Cassio), Peter Van Wagner (as Gratiano), and Alison Wright (Emilia), with Kevin Rico Angulo, Christopher Cassarino, David Kenner, Tim Nicolai, Lily Santiago, Caroline Siewert, and Allen Tedder
Design: Rachel Hauck
Lighting: Jane Cox
Costume: Toni-Leslie James
Sound: Jessica Paz
Other info: Music Composition by Derek Wieland
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Set amid war and palace intrigue in the 17th-century Mediterranean, this classic drama about a noble Black Venetian general whose marriage is sabotaged by theater’s most infamous villain, Iago, remains Shakespeare’s most urgent and relevant tragedy today. A lush, romantic vision gives way to the violent tangle of love and jealousy, race and revenge in this must-see production of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, Othello.
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