Theatre Graduate Rico Lebron Cast in “The Tempest”

Rico LeBron

Excerpts courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com

The Public Theater announced additional casting today for the 2015 Free Shakespeare in the Park season, beginning Wednesday, May 27 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. This summer will feature Shakespeare’s late romances with THE TEMPEST, directed by Tony Award nominee Michael Greif.

THE TEMPEST cast will include FSU School of Theatre graduate Rico Lebron.

THE TEMPEST will run for five weeks from Wednesday, May 27 through Sunday, July 5, with an official press opening on Tuesday, June 16.

Since 1962, over five million people have enjoyed more than 150 free productions of Shakespeare and other classical works and musicals at the Delacorte Theater. Conceived by founder Joe Papp as a way to make great theater accessible to all, The Public’s Free Shakespeare in the Park continues to be the bedrock of the Company’s mission to increase access and engage the community.

In THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s classic about young love, old enemies, and the eternal magic of storytelling, Prospero, exiled to a fantastical island, unleashes a churning storm to shipwreck the traitor brother who stole his throne and settle the score once and for all. But bitter revenge is upended by newfound love in this sublime masterpiece that proves we are all “such stuff as dreams are made on.”

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