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The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park made a dramatic return Thursday night, reopening the iconic Delacorte Theater in Central Park after an $85 million facelift.

Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson led an all-star cast of “Twelfth Night,” wowing audience members including Ben Platt, Billy Crudup, Marcia Gay Harden, Rachel Dratch, and “Gilded Age” star Morgan Spector.

The theater, first built in 1962, recently underwent an 18-month renovation with architect Stephen Chu modernizing backstage areas and covering the outside with wood from the city’s water towers.

Oskar Eustis, the Public’s Artistic Director, welcomed guests back, giving a speech about the similarities between art and democracy.

“The theater postulates that the only way

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