Al Pacino set to play Shylock in NY’s Central Park
Al Pacino meets William Shakespeare next summer in New York City’s Central Park.
The 69-year-old Pacino will portray Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice,” one of two offerings by the Public Theater’s 2010 Shakespeare in the Park sequence, operation June 9-Aug. 1.
Artist principal Oskar Eustis (YOO’-stihs) says the sequence will also enter “The Winter’s Tale,” which will rotate in performance with “Merchant.” Among the actors who will emerge in the theater: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Max Wright. Pacino will only appear in “Merchant.”
Daniel Sullivan will level “The Merchant of Venice” and Michael Greif (GRYEFF) will turn “The Winter’s Tale.”
Idea by REUTERS