Shakespeare in the Park's As You Like It, Starring Lily Rabe, Adds Additional Performance

The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It has added an additional free performance on June 19 at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Lily Rabe as Rosalind, As You Like It will run through June 30.

In As You Like It Rosalind and her boyfriend Orlando (David Furr) find themselves in the enchanted Forest of Arden, where all the world’s a stage, and where sudden infatuation is as confusing as it is beautiful. Along with other “country copulatives,” they discover that nothing transforms, redeems, or enriches experience quite as powerfully as love.

The cast also features Andre Braugher (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Oliver Platt (Touchstone), Brendan Averett (Charles), Donna Lynne Champlin (Audrey), Jon DeVries (Corin), MacIntyre Dixon (Adam), Susannah Flood (Phoebe), Renee Elise Goldsberry (Celia), Robert Joy (Le Beau/Lord), Jesse Lenat (Amiens), Omar Metwally (Oliver), Will Rogers (Silvius), Michael Rudko (First Lord), Stephen Spinella (Jaques) and Brendan Titley (William). The ensemble includes Grantham Coleman, Andrew Hovelson, Erik Mathew, Justine Salata, Paul Saylor and Anna Phyllis Smith. The production also features a score by Steve Martin.

As You Like It will share the season with Sondheim favorite Into The Woods, starring Donna Murphy, Amy Adams, Jessie Mueller, Denis O'Hare and more. Directed by Timothy Sheader, the musical will run from July 23 to August 25.