As You Like It Added to the Summer's Offerings at the Delacorte

This summer the Public Theater will return to offering two free shows at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. As You Like It, running June 25 through July 17, is now set to join the previously announced production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing from August 9 through September 4.

In As Your Like It, a duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his attendants into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother to contend with, so he joins those in the forest. Rosalind, now banished, disguises herself as a young man, with Celia as her servant, and follows Orlando into the forest. Can true love find a way, and can brothers be reconciled and harmony restored?

This Shakespeare in Central Park mounting of As You Like It will be directed by Mark Lamos. Lamos is currently represented on Broadway by the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The Rivals.