PUBLIC FORUM

The Delacorte - Summer 2026

Directed by Jess Slaght

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Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion,

or What We Do For Love

​With its madcap romances, busted friendships, and chaotic fairy magic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has surprised and delighted audiences for more than 400 years. In this special event, Frankie J. Alvarez, Grantham Coleman, Micaela Diamond, J. Harrison Ghee, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Matty Maggiacomo, and Christian Slater, will present an excerpt of Shakespeare’s story of the play’s four young lovers in all their lovestruck comic confusion, sparking a conversation about why and how we do so many crazy, inspired, devoted, disloyal things in our friendships and love affairs.

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Summer Book Club Celebration with The New York Public Library

Calling all New Yorkers! As part of its annual Summer at the Library programming, The New York Public Library, in partnership with The Public Theater, invites New Yorkers to join a summer book club and read N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became together. The book club will culminate in a marquee event at The Delacorte Theater featuring readings, commissioned performances, and public conversation inspired by and celebrating the book. 

Adapted for the stage by Gloria Oladipo

Featuring Brianna Cabrera, Daniel Kyri, Pooja Reddy, Julian Tushabe, Daniel J. Watts

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