"Twelfth Night" Provides a Magical Evening of Shakespeare in Central Park

June 27, 2009

"If music be the food of love, play on" commands the lovelorn Count Orsino as "Twelfth Night" opens - and it is indeed music that sustained a wonderfully joyous performance throughout a rare, clear night at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park this week. And the music provided by Brooklyn based indie-folk band Hem is only one of the many delights of this delightful production of perhaps the most beloved of Shakespeare's comedies.

Although, given the recent weather the performance was miraculous just for the fact that it was completed. I originally was slated to attend Sunday's performance. It was actually a lovely evening until about 7:45 when the heavens, as they say, opened and the rain came pouring down. The resultant one hour wait until the performance was called wasn't much fun, but I quickly found out that it was much less fun for the profoundly disgruntled theater fans that had spent the entire day waiting for tickets.

More about the performance of "Twelfth Night" at the Delacorte Theater