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Photograph: Courtesy Peter CooperThe Comedy of Errors
Photograph: Courtesy Peter Cooper

Free outdoor theater this summer in New York

Shakespeare in the Park is on hiatus, but here’s a guide to other free outdoor theater you can find in New York in 2024.

Adam Feldman
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Public spaces come alive with free outdoor theater in New York City in the summer, and especially with the plays of William Shakespeare. The top destination, of course, is usually the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park presents excellent productions that among New York's best things to do in the summer. That series is on hold this year for long-needed Delacorte renovations, but luckily you can still enjoy plays by Shakespeare and other classical masters elsewhere in the city: in Harlem and Brooklyn, at Battery and Riverside Parks, even in a Lower East Side parking lot. You might be surprised by the magic that can come from wonderful words, inventive actors and a mild summer breeze.

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