PBS tonight broadcasts the production of “Twelfth Night” that reopened the Delacorte in Central Park this summer with a starry cast including  Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong’o, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

 In my review of the Free Shakespeare in the Park production this summer, I didn’t think it the best version I’ve ever seen, but found many reasons to be excited by Saheem Ali’s direction of Shakespeare’s  comically convoluted tale of mistaken identity and addled affection. ” It was inspired to cast Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o as the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are split apart during a shipwreck and make their separate ways through Illyria.  When after much misunderstanding and misadventure, they reunite, the twins now speak to one another in Swahili. (The Nyong’o siblings were raised in Kenya, as was director Ali.) What this does within the dramatic context of the play is  emphasize their status as immigrants, a subtle touch of timeliness.  And I understood the rhapsodic hand claps and foot stamps for Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, two familiar faces, when they first entered the stage together as Lady Olivia and her haughty steward Malvolio.”

Watch clips below from the broadcast: Malvolio (Peter Dinklage) Attempts to Woo Olivia (Sandra Oh), then Cesario (Lupita Nyong’o) tries to woo Olivia, followed by a video about the renovated Delacorte, and a soundless short during the rehearsal..