For a director, William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is always threatening to become “A Midsummer Night’s Nightmare.” The wide-ranging play, currently at Geva Theatre Center, dives headlong into comedy at the same time that it sidles more subtly toward tragedy. The challenge is to give full expression to its contradictory nature yet come away […]
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Great theater: bad ideas, miscastings, and all
Several hundred amazingly respectful school kids attended the matinee I saw of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and seemed to really enjoy it, despite the wrongheaded production. Stratford’s eye-popping, elaborate stagings, performed by some of the world’s best-trained, most gifted classical actors in these state-of-the-art theaters are likely to be the best you will see, […]
