The Delacorte Theater, established in 1962, is an American open-air theater located in Manhattan's Central Park, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, and has a seating capacity of 1,800.
The theater is owned by the City of New York and operated by The Public Theater. It is an open-air amphitheater, with the Turtle Pond and Belvedere Castle as its backdrop. It primarily serves as the venue for The Public Theater's annual Shakespeare in the Park summer series.
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“Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)
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