New York Classical Theatre

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The New York Classical Theatre, founded in 2001, performs two plays every summer in New York City’s Central Park and one in Battery Park. Staging is keyed to the landscape of the parks. At the end of each scene, audience members follow the troupe to a new grassy “stage” among the parks hills, meadows and ponds, a technique that a New York Times reviewer praised as “elimination of the stage itself with a modern-dress version of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ that wanders around a pond in the northwest corner of Central Park.” ^[1] Show Business Inc. wrote that roving through the park “has made theatergoing a more interactive experience, allowing audience members to mingle with actors in a way that traditional venues would not allow.” ^[2]

The productions include Shakespeare, Restoration drama and plays by such comparatively modern masters as George Bernard Shaw. The performances are held near the 103rd Street entrance to the Park at Central Park West. ^[3]

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