Midsummer Night's Dream Tags

80s Throwback is a Dream

Ready for a throwback to the American 80s? Then let Impact Theatre take you back to the era of great music, bad hair, and one heck of a lot of fun in their current production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, showing in the basement of La V...

A Highly Enchanting Dream in Hi-Def

It's been a long time coming. The age of Shakespeare has now entered today's world of high definition and it's about time. Now Opus Arte has the honor of becoming the first label to distribute a Shakespearean production on...

A Midsummer Children's Dream

Despite the early start, a healthy crowd of families gather ‘round to see the opening performance of Open Air Theatre’s re-imagination of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, specially adapted to introduce Shakespeare to children...

A Midsummer for All Ages

This year’s CanStage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at High Park, directed by Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, is a heavily, but deftly cut adaptation with a strong Caribbean flavor. Clocking in at just one hour and thirty...

A Midsummer to Linga Over

Tim Supple's subcontinent-inspired production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (engaged at Toronto's Luminato Festival of the Arts 2008) is colorful, acrobatic and entirely liberating, although it also presents significant challenges.

Act 1, Scene 1

Published in 1603 and considered to be a bad quarto.

All the Wood's a Stage

It takes a lot to get a city girl out of the City, and even more to trek her into the woods on a Saturday afternoon for a hike/play. But I was encouraged by the possibility of my first good showing of A Midsummer...

Carolino's Midsummer Fantasies Require Some Shaping

Quirky, yet creative director Rey Carolino enlists a full cast in this just over two-hour production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at San Francisco’s Phoenix Theatre, and like the bird, this play rides the...

Casual Grace and Loyalty Yielding But a Dream

The first thing you notice at North Bay Shakespeare is that Hamilton Amphitheater park is remarkably beautiful. Why does it seem that every time the government closes a base—in this case an Air Force base—we find out that the...

Dream Away Time with RSC’s Magical Spectacle

This revival of Greg Doran’s 2005 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Novello sees the continuation of the RSC’s London season, all of which were performed in Stratford upon Avon in the summer....

Late-summer Midsummer Lulls

As one walks into The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum space, one cannot help but think it perfectly suited for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The building itself nestled in the Topanga Canyon valley, the nat...

Midsummer Night's Dream

Period written: 1595-1596 First known performance: Duke Theseus and Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding, when Egeus arrives with his daughter Hermia, along with Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander love each...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I, Scene 1

Scene 1 Athens. A room in the palace of Theseus. (Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Egeus, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena)

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I, Scene 2

Scene 2 Athens. A room in Quince’s house. (Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling) Enter Quince the...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II, Scene 1

Scene 1 In the woods near Athens. (Fairy, Puck, King Oberon, Queen Titania, Demetrius, Helena) Enter a Fairy at one...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II, Scene 2

Scene 2 Another part of the woods near Athens. (Titania, Fairies, Oberon, Lysander, Hermia, Puck, Demetrius, Helena)

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 1

Scene 1 In the woods. (Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Puck, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed)

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2

Scene 2 Another part of the woods. (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander, Helena) Enter King of Fairies...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scene 1 Another part of the woods. (Titania, Bottom, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, Oberon, Puck, Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus,...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 2

Scene 2 Athens. A room in Quince’s house. (Quince, Thisby Flute, Snout, Starveling, Snug, Bottom) Enter Quince,...

Midsummer Night's Dream: Act V, Scene 1

Scene 1 Athens. A room in the palace of Theseus. (Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Lords, Attendants, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Quince, Pyramus,...

OSF Acknowledges Our Changeling World

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its seventy-three year old doors to new a season of change. Paul Nicholson, celebrating twenty-nine years as Executive Director at OSF, and Bill Rauch, kicking off his first season as...

Romeo and Juliet Transcend Vanity

O, so light a footWill ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.A lover may bestride the gossamerThat idles in the wanton summer air,And yet not fall; so light is vanity.The thing that most people will talk...

San Francisco Shakespeare Hits It with a Lusty Dream

At the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck wants us to perhaps consider the play “no more yielding but a dream.” Director Kenneth Kelleher, on the other hand, gives us a play that is just that. The initial stage carries a framing tale, of...

The Eye of Man Hath Not Heard What this Dream Was

It’s been seventeen years since the Footsbarn Theatre performed in their native Britain. The international company of actors was established in 1971 and took up residence on a farm in France in 1991—still their home today. As is often their pra...

Vulgarity and Violence Turn Shakespeare’s Dream into A Cock and Bull Nightmare

Once upon a time, there were some hard-handed men as well as four lovers who journeyed into the woods. They happened upon some fairies and a hobgoblin who sprinkled them with fairy magic. Suddenly, their lives were o’ertaken by violence, two near...