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"A Midsummer Night's Dream

'A Really Crazy Experiment'

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 06.02.2013 | Arts
Read More: A Midsummer Night's Dream Puppets, Shakespeare Puppets, Spoleto Festival USA, War Horse Director, Warhorse Puppets, Theater, Tom Morris, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Morris War Horse, War Horse Play, War Horse, Arts News

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Director Tom Morris uses the phrase "happy accident" to describe the success of his Tony-award-winning play "War Horse," whos...

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First Nighter: Diane Paulus's Pippin Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease

David Finkle | Posted 04.25.2013 | Arts
Read More: Kenneth Posner, Garth Helm, " "Hair, Jonathan Deans, Stephen Schwartz, " Scott Pask, 'Pippin, " "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, " the Music Box, Dominique Lemieux, Diane Paulus, "A Midsummer Night's Dream, NY Arts, Chet Walker, " "The Donkey Show, Roger O. Hirson, Arts News
David Finkle

In Chicago, Fosse had Fred Ebb and John Kander explain the power of giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle, and Diane Paulus has taken that dictum to heart with her American Repertory Theater production

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The Faerie Month of May: Faerie Festivals and May Celebrations

Stephen D. Winick | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Read More: May Day, William Shakespeare, Quincy, Child-Health-Day, Library of Congress, Thomas Morton, Whitsundays, Canterbury Tales, Frederick Loewe, Merrymount, Green Man, Dance, Folk Dancing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beltane, t.h. White, Folklore, Celtic, Once and Future King, Holidays, Flora, Women's Colleges, Puritans, Fairies, Pentecost, Robin Hood, Mayday, Alan Jay Lerner, Camelot, Festival, Morris Dancing, Lust, Maypole, Paganism, King Arthur, Geoffrey Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Malory, Video, Arts News
Stephen D. Winick

Today's Maytime Faerie Festivals, including Spoutwood Farm's May Day Fairie Festival, the Maryland Faerie Festival, and the New York Faerie Festival, are outgrowths of this vibrant May tradition. They feature kings and queens, Maypole dances, flower garlands and beautiful costumes.

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Celebrate Poetry Month: Dream of Your Dreams

Terry Blackhawk | Posted 06.01.2013 | Detroit
Read More: Robert Frost, African American Poetry, Black Voices, National Poetry Month, National Poetry Month 2013, Youth Poetry Detroit Public Schools, Youth Poetry, Why Poetry Matters, Shakespeare, Detroit Institute of Arts, Peter Markus, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Detroit, Video, Detroit News
Terry Blackhawk

It must be no accident that National Poetry Month starts on April 1st, because what are poems but a fine foolery, or a fine frenzy as Theseus would have it, in Act V of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Hot Ice And Wondrous Strange Snow

Tamsin Smith | Posted 07.22.2012 | Arts
Read More: Poetry Analysis, Pity the Beautiful, Pity the Beautiful Review, Dana Gioia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Poetry, William Shakespeare, Arts News
Tamsin Smith

As in life, some packages disappoint. But the ones that deliver on deep delight do so hugely. They are worth waiting for. They are worth savoring. They breathe. They stir. They sing. They linger. Pity the Beautiful is a shining example.

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This Proves 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Is Not Foolproof

Wilborn Hampton | Posted 07.17.2012 | Home
Read More: A Midsummer Night's Dream Theater, Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream Review, Home News
Wilborn Hampton

Of all Shakespeare's comedies, one that is usually regarded as foolproof is A Midsummer Night's Dream. This uneven production puts that theory to the test.

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Theater: Bebe Neuwirth Still Looks Dreamy in "Midsummer"

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Theater, Classic Stage Company, William Shakespeare, Bebe Neuwirth, Video, NY Around Town, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Home News
Michael Giltz

The Classic Stage Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream has an eye-catching set and an eye-catching cast in various stages of undress. But the visage you're most likely to remember is that of the self-assured Neuwirth.

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On the Culture Front: Tribeca Film Fest Afterthought, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Newsies and More

Chris Kompanek | Posted 07.02.2012 | New York
Read More: Harvey Fierstein, Julie Delpy, Emily Blunt, 2 Days in New York, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, Tribeca Film Festival, Silence! The Musical, Your Sister's Sister, Magnetic Fields, Christina Ricci, Alan Menken, Chris Rock, Newsies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stephin Merritt, New York News
Chris Kompanek

t's been a busy month on the culture front; a lot has gone down in the music, theater and film worlds. Magnetic Fields, Silence! The Musical, Newsies, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Christina Ricci Will Star In This Shakespeare Play

AP | Posted 12.21.2011 | Home
Read More: Video, Titania, Art in America, Broadway, Christina Ricci, Christina Ricci Theater, Christina Ricci a Midsummer Night's Dream, Theater, Christina Ricci Time Stands Still, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Time Stands Still, Home News

NEW YORK -- Christina Ricci's stage debut last year apparently didn't scare her off – she's going back. Producers said Tuesday the "Pan Am" sta...

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A Collection Of Shakespeare's Raunchiest Lines

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.02.2011 | Books
Read More: Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Dirtiest Lines, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dirty Lines Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Books News

A couple of weeks back we reported that reading Shakespeare makes you smarter. But to counterbalance that thesis, we thought we’d also better point ...

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WATCH: Danny Pudi Of 'Community' Drops Some Shakespeare

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Video, Puck, Entertainment, Danny Pudi, Monologue, Abed Nadir, Sketch Comedy, Community, Shakespeare, Brian Mcelhaney, Britanick, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nick Kocher, Comedy News

New York-based sketch group BriTANick have made a name for themselves over the last few years with their consistently strong web videos. The "Bri...

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Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Playwrighting, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

10 minutes before curtain, I sat down next to an older man. He immediately turned to me said, "So I guess you 're my new friend. Not to get too personal but these were my wife's seats. She passed away a few weeks ago."

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ReelzChannel: Top 10 Shook-Up Shakespeare Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Top Ten List, Romeo and Juliet, Film, Romantic Comedy, Humor, The Tempest, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Movies, King Lear, Henry IV, Romance, Hamlet, Amanda Seyfried, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V, Letters to Juliet, Comedy, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

William Shakespeare, now there was a guy who could put pen to paper. So powerful was his Romeo and Juliet that the heartbroken of today still write to...

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