The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is proud to present the unique display, Artists for LPA Share Shakespeare: “A More Personal Connection” in the Plaza Corridor Gallery. To make the display, we spoke with a diversity of theatre artists who use our collections, including actors, musicians, designers, and songwriters, and asked for their most memorable Shakespeare experiences, their favorite and least favorite plays, productions, characters, and actors; their greatest inspirations. Their responses are enlightening, and each has been paired with artifacts from our collections to further inform them: Find out how John Lee Beatty realized “that Hamlet had the best plot ever”; learn why being “madly in love” made As You Like It so personal for Jane Alexander; discover, as Derek McLane has, how plays of “lesser reputation” can lead to “a more personal connection.”

Artists for LPA Share Shakespeare is part of a larger project at the Library for Performing Arts that includes public programs, film screenings, resources for educators, and Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, a major exhibition in the neighboring Astor Gallery.

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