This summer, we're celebrating all things Free Shakespeare in the Park by bringing the show to you in your community and at home.

Mobile Unit embarks on a tour with a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. This adaptation rigorously embraces music from all over Latin America in this tale of separation and joyous reunion.

In partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and NYC Parks experience The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Join us on Lafayette and Astor Place as we celebrate the community, The Public, and Free Shakespeare with live performances, activities, and giveaways.

This sweeping, episodic play features nineteen actors from across the globe on a multi-generational journey of a Sri-Lankan Australian family from 1956-2004.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his sharp, funny new play, GOOD BONES.

In a performance that interweaves 75,000 years of humanity with the incredibly personal account of his best friend’s escape, Finnigan calls on scientific research, phone footage, and a very personal story to illuminate the transforming planet and how we’ve arrived here. 

Ahead of the centennial of The Great Gatsby’s publication and more than a decade after its original Obie and Lortel Award-winning engagements, Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ returns to The Public for a thrilling and final New York City encore of the acclaimed production.