In a nutshell: the play turns love upside down to show how irrational, changeable, and magical it can be – before restoring order, harmony, and celebration. Shakespeare’s comedy opens in Athens where ...

This is a completely valid reading of the text – I personally have never recovered from the realisation that Hermia’s father, Egeus, is contemplating an honour killing if she refuses to marry ...

A few scenes into Emily Lim’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe stage undergoes a transformation. Austere statuary gets wheeled away, the columns are swathed in plastic flowers, and ...

“I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…” Like Nick Bottom (and the lovers), stepping out of the Bridge Theatre auditorium after a performance of A ...

Marin Shakespeare Company has a long tradition of clever interpretations of the Bard’s classics. Robert Currier’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” was reset in the free-love era of early 1970s Marin ...

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.

This folky, jokey, crowd-pleasing new Midsummer Night’s Dream from director Emily Lim opens with members of the audience being invited on stage to learn a dance routine and continues in this vein in a ...

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 ...