PhotosSee Rehearsals for Coriolanus at Shakespeare in the ParkThe free production will begin performances July 16 at the Public's Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
By
Nathan Skethway
June 20, 2019
Jonathan Cake and L’Oreál Lampley
Joan Marcus
Rehearsals are underway for the Public Theater's second production in their Shakespeare in the Park summer season. Coriolanus, directed by Daniel Sullivan, will begin performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park July 16 for a run scheduled to continue through August 11. The new production follows the Public's current staging of Much Ado About Nothing,directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon and starring Danielle Brooks.
Camping and Desperate Housewives' Jonathan Cake, seen as Antony in The Public Theater's 2014 production of Antony and Cleopatra, will star as Caius Martius Coriolanus. The war-torn tragedy will also feature Kate Burton as Volumnia, Teagle F. Bougere as Menenius Agrippa, Tom Nelis as Cominius, and Louis Cancelmi as Tullus Aufidius.
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Coriolanus in Rehearsals at the Public
Coriolanus in Rehearsals at the Public
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Jonathan Cake and L’Oreál Lampley
Joan Marcus
Daniel Sullivan and Steve Rankin
Teagle F. Bougere and Kate Burton
Jonathan Cake, Suzannah Herschkowitz, and Gregory Connors
Sullivan last staged Troilus and Cressida at The Delacorte Theater in 2016. His other Shakespeare in the Park credits include Cymbeline, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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