Lily Rabe admits she was “nervous, actually,” the first time she set foot on the stage of the Delacorte Theater following its $85 million renovation. Her homecoming this month comes courtesy of another longtime collaborator, director Daniel Sullivan, who asked her to play Hermione in The Winter’s Tale. “I don’t think Shakespeare made any mistakes. I don’t think I can know until afterward.” “Acting in the rain is something that I really don’t mind at all, especially when it’s Shakespeare.