24
Nov/13

THE MOBILE SHAKESPEARE UNIT: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

24
Nov/13

The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Ave.
November 25 – December 15, $20 general admission
212-967-7555
www.publictheater.org

The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit is back from its three-week tour of all five boroughs and other locations, bringing its free production of Much Ado About Nothing to places where people have limited or no access to the arts, including the Park Avenue Armory Women’s Mental Health Shelter in Manhattan, the Queensboro Correctional Facility and the Fortune Society in Queens, the Rose M. Singer Center and the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island, the DreamYard Project in the Bronx, and the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester. The last stop is the Public Theater itself, where the Bard’s 1598-99 comedy about romantic mischief, mystery men, and marital mayhem will run from November 25 through December 15. The show is directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah (Detroit ’67, Elmina’s Kitchen), with choreography by Chase Brock (The Tempest, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) and original music by Shane Rettig (The Unknown, the Atomic Grind Show). The cast features Michael Braun as Benedick, Samantha Soule as Beatrice, A. Z. Kelsey as Claudio and Conrade, Kerry Warren as Hero, Marc Damon Johnson as Don Pedro and Verges, Ramsey Faragallah as Leonato, Lucas Caleb Rooney as Dogberry and Don John, and Rosal Colón as Margaret, Borachia, and Friar Francis. Tickets are only $20, and there are only twenty-three performances, so you better act fast.