Brian Lerer on WNYC and we'll end today with another installment in our Pledge Drive miniseries

looking ahead to the cultural events coming up this summer in and sometimes around New York City.

Today it's theater out of doors with Adam Feldman,

Timeout New York's National Theater and Dance Editor and Chief Theater Critic.

Hey, Adam, welcome back to WNYC.

Hello, glad to be here.

So maybe the big news is the opening of the newly renovated Delacourt Theater in Central Park,

where the public theater has been putting on great productions of Shakespeare in the park since 1962.

So what's new there?

This year they are doing 12th night, but the big excitement is that the Delacourt is reopening.

As you say, the public has been doing these since 1962,

but it didn't do it last year because the Delacourt was shut for long overdue renovations. This

year, 12th Night is back, and 12th Night is one of the most popular Shakespeare comedies. It's the one

that has emerged as perhaps the most frequently performed in the past few years.

And so this year is going to be headlined by a bunch of very big stars. Lupita Njongo is starring as Viola,

and her brother, Junior Njongo, is going to be playing Viola's identical twin brother, Sebastian.

So that'll be a fun way to come back to the park.

Also, Sandra O. and Peter Dinklage and Jesse Tyler Ferguson

and many others, this is really going to be a very attractive production.

Now, I see that's not until August 7th.

So while we're waiting for the Delacourt to reopen,

the public theater has a mobile unit that travels around the city putting on shows?

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