William Shakespeare’s plays lend themselves to modern interpretations as few theatrical works can, and the Montford Park Players are famous for taking The Bard’s writing and having fun with it at ...

The next chapter of the Great Lakes Theater finds the esteemed Cleveland company beginning the season with not only two thematically connected productions but one being a play within a play. Directing ...

The play currently on the Guthrie stage is clearly about desire, but for a deeper understanding it helps to crack the code. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is two plays in one. It is fluffy, foolish, ...

With its three storylines — one involving shifting Athenian love triangles, another about a battle of the sexes between the king and queen of the fairies, and a third about a group of amateur actors — ...

Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers. Maybe it’s fate, probably it’s teenage hormones, but their destiny seems inevitable. Shakespeare often presents love as inevitable. Director Maurice Emmanuel ...

In the hands of Synetic Theater, Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM becomes more than a whimsical tale of love and mischief—it transforms into a kinetic, visually arresting spectacle that dances ...

Lovers & Madmen’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” welcomed spring over the weekend with a series of free outdoor performances. Passersby and attendees toting lawn chairs gathered to watch performances of ...