The Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale Announced for Shakespeare in the Park
The Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale will comprise the lineup for the Public Theater's 2010 Shakespeare in the Park season. Playing in repertory on rotating nights, The Merchant of Venice will be directed by Daniel Sullivan, with The Winter's Tale being helmed by Michael Greif. Performances begin June 9, with the plays running through August 1. Casting and design teams will be announced at a later date.
Shakespeare in the Park 2010 is not The Public Theater’s first foray into rotating repertory. Henry IV, Parts One and Two were performed in rep in the Newman Theater in 1991, and 20 years earlier, the Henry VI plays and Richard III were condensed into The War of the Roses, which was presented in rep and then performed in one all-night marathon in Central Park.
Sullivan directed the 2009 Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night. Also at the Public, he has directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stuff Happens and The Merry Wives of Windsor. His Broadway credits include Accent on Youth, Top Girls, Come Back Little Sheba, The Homecoming, Prelude to a Kiss, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Julius Caesar, Brooklyn Boy, Morning’s at Seven, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ah, Wilderness!, The Sisters Rosensweig, Conversations With My Father, The Heidi Chronicles and I’m Not Rappaport. His numerous off-Broadway credits include Intimate Apparel, In Real Life, Dinner With Friends, Proof, Ten Unknowns, Ancestral Voices and Spinning Into Butter.
Greif directed the 2007 Shakespeare in the Park revival of Romeo and Juliet for the Public, as well as Diana Son’s Satellites, the launch performance of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays, Fucking A, Dogeaters, Marisol, Pericles, Casanova, A Bright Room Called Day and Machinal. Greif's Broadway credits include Rent, Grey Gardens and Next to Normal. Off-Broadway credits include Boys Life, A Very Common Procedure, Landscape of the Body, Spatter Pattern, The Distance from Here, Betty Rules and Next to Normal.