"A stage bursting with performers diverse in age, race, size, habit and circumstance, an audience distributed across a similar spectrum. 'As You Like It' offers that rare thing — a New York theater that looks like the city itself and feels like a promise of what the city, at its best, could be."
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"4/5 Stars! Taub and Woolery's musical adaptation takes lavish liberties with Shakespeare’s comedy, which may dismay some textual purists. But this version embraces the show's reputation as a crowd-pleaser by not only catering to a crowd but including one, too...If you prefer your classics traditional and slick, beware. But for the rest of us Groundlings, this truly feels like Shakespeare for—and by—everyone."
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"Taub's 'As You Like It' score bursts with flavors — fitting for a work that prizes diversity...The production is wrapped up in a tidy package."
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"Even at its most irreverent, this 'As You Like It' distills the myriad pleasures of the original into a production that honors it even as it transforms it."
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"This clear-eyed production - sees the forest for the trees as themes of identity, change and the great circle of life are delicately woven through script, music and performances."
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"It is hard to think of a recent production of the play itself that was as satisfying as this. If it has any drawback, it is the fact that it makes audience members envious that they are not part of the large and diverse ensemble of community members."
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"What's even more energizing about this production is witnessing Taub back in her creative element... 'As You Like It' epitomizes all the things that remind us why she is such a special artist."
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In a way, this As You Like It contains, in a single production, everything about the Public Theater: the devotion to Shakespeare; the knack for social commentary; the ardent interest in new writing, especially innovative musical theatre; and the outreach to the widest possible community. And, in its firm belief that an earthly paradise is within our grasp if only we come to our senses and love one another, it recalls such NYSF landmarks as Hair and the musical Two Gentleman of Verona … It is a vision of hope, an invitation to joy.
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