City Of New York Bills Shakespeare In The Parking Lot For Parking Spaces

“For the last 17 summers it has been one of New York’s more offbeat free diversions: … a troupe of actors on a shoestring budget perform Hamlet, Macbeth and other classics in a municipal lot on the Lower East Side.” Beginning this year, due to a rule change, the city’s Transportation Dept. is asking the company to pay the usual parking fees for the empty spaces they use.