Shana Cooper makes her PlayMakers’ directorial debut with A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
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Introducing Shana Cooper
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Creating Lighting Designs
Theater design of all types often begins by thinking about metaphors. As designers we try to get to the heart of what the playwright is saying…
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Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
One of the most indispensable and influential artists in the contemporary theatre, Stephen Sondheim was born in New York City in 1930…
Like Oscar Wilde, who both penned imaginative literature and often insisted that life imitates art far more than art imitates life…
If Sondheim had a partial debt to Hammerstein, he was also consciously challenging himself to emulate the triumphant construction of a Hollywood favorite, The Wizard of Oz,a work whose score he lauded…
Among the many rich connections between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Into the Woods is their uncommon fusion of multiple sources…
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About The Bard
William Shakespeare’s origins are obscure but the little evidence that we have suggests that he was christened in Stratford-on-Avon, April 26, 1564…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 2
The critic Northrup Frye in “The Mythos of Spring” forcefully articulated this contrast between imagination and authority. Frye points out…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 1
Both James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream trade upon the familiar…