Kings, queens, fairies, lovers, and sprites all collide in an enchanted forest one midsummer night proving that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” One of Shakespeare’s most ...

The Royal Exchange in Manchester had been due to stage A Midsummer Night's Dream for five weeks Arts union Equity has criticised a "growing culture of censorship" after a play was cancelled ...

The RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is larger than life and a prime example of how modern Shakespeare adaptations should ...

The Royal Exchange in Manchester had been due to stage A Midsummer Night's Dream for five weeks A theatre has launched a review to learn from the "issues that arose” after it cancelled a ...

For the uninitiated, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a story of the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta as an overarching frame, four young lovers who find themselves in the woods, fairies caught up in ...

Promotion for this Royal Shakespeare Company production has dwelt heavily ... This strikes me as an oblique reference to Peter Brook’s stark, groundbreaking Dream from 1970: if so, the show wears it ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most familiar ... Theseus is less a tyrant than a bumbling minor royal. A Tim-nice-but-dim wooing Hippolyta’s prim Jackie Kennedy with ...

It might seem strange to put on a play set at the height of summer in the middle of December. But the colourful excess of the RSC’s latest take on Shakespeare’s comedy – transferring to the ...