The stage of the Delacorte Theatre, in Central Park, was glistening on Monday evening with what remained of an earlier rainfall, while the sky overhead was heavy and gray. These were not the best of omens, perhaps, for the evening's event: a gala celebration in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Public Theatre, which opened its doors in the former Astor Library, downtown on Lafayette Street, in the fall of 1967…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00PM on June 7, 2017