SOURCE: Graeber, Laurel. “Kiss Him, Kate.” New York Times (16 August 2002): E35.

In the following review, Graeber praises director Stephen Burdman's energetic 2002 New York Classical Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, New York.

New York Classical Theater may inspire you to add to the list of things you normally take to an outdoor performance in Central Park. As well as blankets and mosquito repellent, its productions call for sneakers, or at least comfortable shoes.

That's because the theater treats Shakespeare as a movable feast. Having performed Twelfth Night this summer, it is now offering The Taming of the Shrew. All the park's a stage, so to speak, and though the play takes place within three blocks of 97th Street and Central Park West, spectators get a workout running after the actors.

This slightly abridged production (105 minutes), fast-moving in all senses, is a delight for...