"Merry Wives," Jocelyn Bioh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's least performed comedies, which officially opened Monday night, is supposedly set among African immigrants during present-day Harlem. But it actually takes place in Central Park among theater-deprived New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when so many in the audience see the production as...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23AM on August 10, 2021