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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Theater director Kenny Leon’s latest is an all-black version of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park

New York Daily News: The groundbreaking director who brought Diddy — and the words of Tupac Shakur — to Broadway is now reimagining a hallowed Shakespeare classic.

Kenny Leon, who won the 2014 Tony Award for his revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun," is staging the William Shakespeare comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater with an all-black cast and set in a modern-day Atlanta mansion — with music and dancing.

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