November 28, 2009 – 7:22 pm
Back in 2006, when we spent the better part of six months working on writing and then rehearsing and then performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with director Tina Landau, we made some lasting friendships with some of the actors. Notably, we had to collaborate closely with Jesse Nager (who sang so gloriously on our recording [...]
December 31, 2006 – 2:41 pm
The Daily Record
December 31, 2006
High points of ‘06
Morris area stages served up great theater
by William Westhoven
Writing this traditional end-of-the-year column is never a chore. What better way to celebrate the holiday season than to sit back and revisit all the great theater you’ve seen over the past 12 months — lingering on the high points, [...]
[Midsummer Night's Dream] is built around the jazz-rock band GrooveLily, and their luscious stylings recall a smooth but hard-driving blend of Roxy Music and Herbie Hancock, quite suitably ornate and theatrical.
– Jonathon Warman, The New York Blade, May 8, 2006
The Daily Record
March 31, 2006
McCarter dreams up a Shakespearean extravaganza
by William Westhoven
Shakespeare challenged our imaginations some 400 years ago with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Now, director Tina Landau is challenging our senses with an early spring “Midsummer” at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre [...]
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March 26, 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by Simon Saltzman
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is believed to have been written around 1596 for an actual wedding festivity of a prominent person. No one can agree on whose wedding, but one thing is fairly certain, [...]