Overview

• The Delacorte Theatre has reopened after roughly a yearlong closure and an $85 million renovation for the Public Theater’s free summer series.
• The production features a marquee cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
• Director Saheem Ali’s staging runs under two hours with no intermission and leans into showmanship, with giant “WHAT YOU WILL” letters, a central trapdoor, a boxing-style duel and a drag-ball curtain call.
• Critics single out Nyong’o’s anchoring Viola and Dinklage’s inventive Malvolio, noting an entertaining approach that downplays the play’s darker undercurrents.
• Music is integral through a live string quartet, Michael Thurber’s score and Moses Sumney as Feste, with Swahili dialogue from the Nyong’o siblings, and the free run is scheduled through Sept. 13.