A Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer! review – Suri Noelle sparkles in a frisky Dream at the Edinburgh fringe
A lusty adaptation by Avenue Q’s co-creator is performed with verve by Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter and her fellow students
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – regal rockers and a fairy folk band strike up trouble
There’s much to love in Atri Banerjee’s fun staging, in particular Titania’s musical crew and a brilliant Bottom, but some of the wonder is missing
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – hilarious and heartfelt, from top to Bottom
A spunky Helena and an inspired Puck elicit spontaneous cheers and laughter in Emily Lim’s generous, creative and clever show
The play’s the thing – but everyone has their own favourite
Ranked
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface
Director Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies’ feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with blood
Country diary
Country diary: An autumn fireball that’s a sanctuary for insectsCaistor St Edmund, Norfolk: The Robin’s pincushion is a most rare vision – and has an unexpected origin for its unusual name
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief
Re-met by moonlight: A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to London’s Bridge theatre – in pictures
Review clearing Manchester’s Royal Exchange of censorship criticised
A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play’s songs
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Mathew Baynton’s Dream, Hadestown and moreAnaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – characters mash, worlds invert and flames burst from fingers
Eleanor Rhode’s ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun rouses audiences in a youthful, energetic riot
Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa on stage: the Time Lord treads the boards – in pictures
Before his high-profile roles in Sex Education, Barbie and Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa spent years on stage. Here are some of his roles
‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play
The Oscar-winning star discusses her Shakespearean roles and the characters she brought to life in watercolours in her new book
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – giddy shenanigans with a brilliantly chaotic Puck
This bright, bold show tries to balance humour and darkness but tends to land on the silly side of things
Sheridan Smith on stage: from Hedda Gabler to Elle Woods – in pictures
As she returns to the West End to star in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre, revisit some of the Olivier award-winner’s theatre roles
The Lovers review – Shakespeare musical charms, but doesn’t always deliver
The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Bell Shakespeare’s first ever musical puts some pop into A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and it is good fun, if you don’t think too hard about it
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – gleefully anarchic opening show
New playhouse kicks off with a boisterous, boundary-pushing production that is inventive enough to find fresh laughs in the mechanicals
Play time
Midsummer Mechanicals review – the Dream’s rude players deliver more merrimentBottom, Quince, Flute and Patience make the young audience feel right at home in this affably silly show that puts Shakespeare in a spin
A Blessed Bottom: how booming Brian inspired his daughter’s Shakespearean role
Rosalind Blessed explains how her force-of-nature father shaped her performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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