Venue

Delacorte Theater

Delacorte Theater
Central Park W and 81st St, New York, NY 10024
centralparknyc.org

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The Delacorte Theater, established in 1962, is an open-air theater located in Manhattan’s Central Park. The Delacorte is owned by the City of New York and operated by The Joseph Papp Public Theater. It is a modified theater in the round, with Turtle Pond and Belvedere Castle as backdrop.

Each summer, the Joseph Papp Public Theater presents a series, generally of two productions with two-week runs at the Delacorte, in recent years always including at least one work by William Shakespeare. These are presented free to the public: two tickets per individual are distributed at 1 p.m. of each performance day on a first-come, first-served basis, although subscribers to the Public Theater may purchase tickets.