Lynn Collins and Herb Foster Set for As You Like It at Delacorte

Broadway.com has learned that Lynn Collins will star as Rosalind in the Public Theater staging of William Shakespeare's As You Like It in Central Park this summer. Herb Foster will also be featured in the mounting, directed by Mark Lamos.

Collins' first big New York stage role was another Shakespeare mounting at the Public Theater, playing Ophelia opposite Liev Schreiber in a 1999 mounting of Hamlet. On Broadway she portrayed husband-stealing chorine Miriam Aarons in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Women. Her other stage credits include Peter Hall's Los Angeles production of Romeo and Juliet and a Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties. Last year she received major billing for a film version of The Merchant of Venice in which she appeared alongside such heavy-hitters as Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. Her other big screen credits include Down with Love, 50 First Dates, 13 Going On 30 and the upcoming Bronte.

Foster recently appeared on the Great White Way in Lamos' production of The Rivals. His other Broadway credits include Into the Woods, Kiss Me, Kate, Amy's View, Jekyll & Hyde, The Herbal Bed, Getting Away With Murder, Timon of Athens, Me and My Girl, Noises Off, The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Playboy of the Western World. A Public Theater veteran he has appeared at the non-profit in stagings of Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida, Richard II, All's Well That Ends Well and Henry VII.

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 Collins, 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?

As You Like It is scheduled to run June 25 through July 17.