Among the signifiers of a New York summer"the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair"is the sound of blank verse. Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-August affair, despite the Bard's penchant for discontented winters and warring winds. Oscar Isaac, who played Romeo in Central Park years before "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "Star Wars" made him a heartthrob, will take on "Hamlet," at the P…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 05:00AM on May 12, 2017