Shakespeare in the Park

Wonderful job.

You were doing Shakespeare in the Park at the time.

I was, yeah.

Yeah.

What

was that? So that event, believe it or not, that was, and you'll remember when I say it, that was the Shakespeare in the Park event.

Absolutely.

where they had depicted President Trump as Julius Caesar, and they had depicted his wife as Melania, by the way, and that every single night, right there in Central Park, New York City, they were brutally stabbing him to death on stage to the... thunderous cheers and applause of the audience and when i went up there with lar lumer and this was uh just a few days after and people always forget the context a few days after the shooting of steve scalise by a crazed russiagate conspiracy theorist they almost killed him rand paul by the way was also involved in that shooting he was also someone who was targeted he wasn't hit but he was targeted that day That this was an event where I said the rise of political violence is getting out of control.

I feel like

for summer for me, like, And I haven't been in a while, but I love to go see Shakespeare in the park.

I'll be too.

I didn't get tickets for the last few ones, but

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everyone's so excited.

You know, what Shakespeare in the Park, you guys, is a free concert.

I mean a free play.

I'm interviewing all sorts of people, not just wrestling people, but wrestlers are actually the greatest actors and the purest artists of all artistry.

And if you want to debate that, if you want to shut me down, if you want to talk about doing Shakespeare in the Park, then come on the show, celebrities who are in my neighborhood right now.

And if we see them, we got to start yelling at them to be on our podcast because that's how you get people to do it.

You just start harassing people in public and go, please do my podcast.

Well, Joe Papp was a, besides being a great friend and mentor, he was a a towering inspiration and the most credible force in the American theater.

He founded the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater, and he nourished the careers of some of our greatest young playwrights and actors, including people like George C. Scott and Bobby De Niro and Al Pacino and many, many others.

And I was lucky enough to have worked with him very early in the 60s.

and and uh stayed active with him uh through time and when we we moved out here in the early 70s in california and i would go back every now and then to do a show uh at the at the public theater and during the the height of the age crisis larry uh kramer wrote the normal heart and larry was a very strong advocate for social justice and rights and gay rights.

Now, something different about this location is that they're offering their first full bar and signature cocktail program, which gives you a chance to enjoy cocktails along with your Gotham Smash Burger, which I think is pretty cool.

Tonight, Lin-Manuel Miranda is doing a free one-night-only show in Central Park at the Delacorte Theater at 7 p.m., which is the same theater that actually does Shakespeare in the Park.

And if you want any more info, head to thepublic.nyc slash publicforum.

And on Saturday, ShopRite's going to be holding job fairs at store locations across New York, Long Island, and New Jersey.