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2 days ago · Review by Mark Quinn If you were to conjure up the best production to christen The Lyric Theatre’s outdoor amphitheatre, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting play than Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. 13 years since the new Lyric opened, this dazzling production will have anyone lucky enough to grab a ticket to the
2 days ago · The Lyric brings the theatre outside this summer with a vibrant and spectacularly fun staging of William Shakespeare’s all time classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream – where lovers fall in and out and in to love, spirits and sprites haunt the forest, an actor turns into a donkey and magic and mischief abounds everywhere.
5 days ago · Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of Shakespeare’s play famously begins in the enchanted forest outside Athens where mortals encounter the elfin spirits of the night who play tricks on them. The opera dispenses with the first act of the play and we are plunged straight into the supernatural world of Oberon and Tytania and their quarrels.
3 days ago · Some of the best movies based on Shakespeare's plays aren't always obviously inspired by them, from Warm Bodies to The Lion King.
4 days ago · Mythology is a ton of fun and movies about ancient Greece like Troy, 300, and more play around in the universe in interesting ways.
5 days ago · ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is, of course, Shakespeare’s magical comedy, and unlike the children’s shows it’ll be staged in the evening, with nightfall taking place during the show itself.
3 days ago · Director: Masaaki Yuasa. There are a few arthouse movies that also work as offbeat romantic comedies, including Smiles of a Summer Night and Night Is Short, Walk on Girl.
