Live Theater Returns in "Reopening Night"

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | Dec 24, 2021

"Reopening Night" captures the cast and crew of Shakespeare in the Park as they produce "Merry Wives" after the pandemic shutdown. The new production adapted by playwright Jocelyn Bioh sets the romantic misadventures of Falstaff in modern day Harlem.

 

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