C THEATER MISSION


As the nation’s foremost theatrical producer of Shakespeare and new work, The Public Theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an American theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of challenging new plays, musicals and innovative stagings of the classics.


Toward this effort, The Public continues to be guided by a philosophy of inclusion, which takes on many forms—non-traditional casting of productions, education and development initiatives for artists from diverse backgrounds, outreach to students and audiences throughout New York City’s fi ve boroughs, humanities endeavors that provide a social and cultural context for the works we present, and mainstage productions that refl ect and speak to the issues and interests of our surrounding community. Ticket prices for performances are kept low or free of charge in order to attract a broad audience, and every performance space is handicap accessible, with free sign language-interpreted and open-captioned performances offered during summer productions. The Public’s programming also cultivates connections among its many constituencies—between artists and audiences and across ethnicities, ages and experiences. These connections are fundamental to the work of the institution as well as to the development of future artists and audiences, and thus the health of the theater community as a whole.


“The experience of sitting out on a summer night in the world’s most beautiful park in the middle of New York City watching a play that is absolutely free is the moment I always feel, I can’t believe I get to live here. And it’s such a completely obvious and satisfying metaphor for New York, or at least our idealized version of it—as the cultural capital of the world that anyone can come to and be welcomed in.”—Nora Ephron


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Left to Right: Idina Menzel in See What I Wanna See, Liev Schreiber and Alec Baldwin in Macbeth 1998, Jimmy Smits in Twelfth Night 2002, photo Credit: Michal Daniel, Joseph Papp, Anne Hathaway in Twelfth Night 2009, photo Credit: Joan Marcus, Don Cheadle in Topdog/Underdog, Cast of Stuff Happens, photo credit: Michal Daniel


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