Summertime and Shakespeare are a tried and true match. Every year across the country, theaters undoubtedly program Shakespeare into their schedules. This year Louisville’s own Drag Daddy Productions ...

There’s always something special about seeing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” performed outdoors, and attending Oak Park Festival Theatre this past weekend was no exception. Surrounded by trees under a ...

It may be the dead of winter in Minnesota but that is not stopping the Guthrie Theater from taking audiences to the moonlight filled forests of Athens in the middle of summer. Yes, William Shakespeare ...

Cheerfully energetic but not quite their typical richly-conceived fare, the Folger Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has its moments — just not quite enough of them. It couldn’t have been easy ...

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Chances are that William Shakespeare never heard of Joan Vassos or “The Golden Bachelorette.” And it seems unlikely that The Bard of Avon followed Robyn Dixon’s up-and-down relationship with her ...

If, as the ‘60s song says, what the world needs now is love, sweet love, the Guthrie Theater is doing its best to unleash the flow. Its new production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is ...

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You don’t normally expect Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to come with trigger warnings, do you? But this Globe/Headlong/Bristol Old Vic/Leeds Playhouse co-production, one of the wintriest ...

WATERTOWN — The place of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the Bard-iverse is secure. Maybe too secure. “Dream” gets staged a lot. So the first job for any new production is to justify its existence.

‘Let me get this out of the way before I begin. If you happen to be either an actor, or avid theater-goer, of “a certain age,” you most likely tend to remember one of Shakespeare’s most famous (staged ...