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PUBLIC THEATER REDUCED & REVISED EUSTIS’ PAY

July 15, 2025 by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: In July 2023, when the Public Theater cut 19 percent of its staff, Artistic Director Oskar Eustis vowed to significantly reduce his own pay as a gesture of solidarity amid the austerity.

The charismatic 66-year-old leader followed through. In 2023, Eustis’ total  compensation dropped 8 percent from the previous year, to a still-hefty $1.1 million, according to a Public Theater financial document posted on its website last week.Continue Reading

A ‘MERRY’ RETURN OF SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK: REVIEW

August 9, 2021 by James Feinberg

“It’s been a long, hard year,” John Falstaff (Jacob Ming-Trent) complains in Merry Wives, Jocelyn Bioh’s update of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Delacorte Theatre. “Been stuck in the house just eating snacks. Watching Netflix. Bored outta my Got-damned mind!” So when it comes to his somewhat clumsy attempts to seduce his neighbors’ wives, Falstaff finishes with a flourish, “Can you blame me for tryna get with Madam Page and Madam Ford?”Continue Reading

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