'Reopening Night' Documentary Chronicles Shakespeare in the Park During COVID: 'We Opened in Chaos'
Like mariners shipwrecked in “The Tempest,” tormented by a conspiring God, or Macbeth at Dunsinane, the cast and crew of Shakespeare in the Park’s “Merry Wives” faced promethean odds. As told in the new HBO Max documentary “Reopening Night,” the Public Theater’s endeavor to open “Merry Wives” as the first large-scale theater event in New York City last summer was as Shakespearean as its subject. “And here I was thinking this was going to be a boring documentary,” playwright Jocelyn Bioh, who res