David Esbjornson will stage Measure for Measure. Daniel Sullivan, who staged Twelfth Night in 2009 and last year's Merchant of Venice, will helm All's Well That Ends Well. Both productions were last seen during the 1993 Shakespeare in the Park season.
Here is the cast in rehearsal:
The 2011 Shakespeare in the Park season will run June 6-July 30 at the Delacorte Theater.
"Last year's Shakespeare rep was a thrilling success; the current run of The Merchant of Venice on Broadway is a wonderful reminder of what made last summer so magical," Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis said in a statement. "This year, two of Shakespeare's richest and most rewarding plays make up our season. We are delighted that once again an American Shakespeare company will light up New York's summer."
Here's how the Public bills the works:
"All's Well That Ends Well is a fairytale for grown-ups. This beguiling fable follows the low-born Helena, one of Shakespeare’s most resourceful heroines, as she inventively surmounts obstacle after impossible obstacle in order to win the love of the aristocratic and haughty Count Bertram."
"Measure for Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, and from the convent's chapel to the executioner’s block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked."