“Coriolanus may be not as ‘interesting’ as Hamlet,” writes T. S. Eliot in The Sacred Wood, “but it is, with Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success.” Actors Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, and, more recently, Tom Hiddleston have played the Roman general-turned-politician. In the Delacorte Theater’s open-air production of Coriolanus, which promises a contemporary treatment of the classic, Jonathan Cake takes the lead. —J.V.
The Arts Intel Report
Coriolanus
When
July 16 – Aug 11, 2019
Where
81 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023, USA
Photograph by Tammy Shell