Since 2012, Midsommer Flight has been dedicated to offering high quality, accessible productions of William Shakespeare’s plays around Chicago. The company’s newest production of the Bard’s popular comedy As You […]
Of William Shakespeare’s comedies, Love’s Labour’s Love doesn’t get a whole lot of—ahem, love. Written in the mid-1590s when the young Bard was learning his powers, the oft-ignored play centers […]
Is there anything as lovely as theater in the park on a warm summer evening? That’s the concept behind Midsommer Flight’s annual summer series of Shakespeare in the park. This […]
Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare’s late and rarely performed plays. but with a trimmed-down script and engaging movement and music, Midsommer Flight overcomes the Bard’s many plot complications and creates a […]
We can look forward to theater in public parks all over Chicago this summer—and all free. Midsommer Flight will stage Shakespeare’s Cymbeline from July 7 to August 13. Chicago Shakespeare […]
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a mistaken-identity rom-com designed as a frolic to entertain at the end of the holiday season (there is nothing about Christmas in this play itself). […]
Perhaps that headline made you think, Oh no, not Midsummer Night’s Dream again. But seeing Shakespeare’s Athenian woodland fantasy in an actual park, among the trees and grass with an urban soundscape […]
This isn’t a “best theater of the year” list. As we’ve noted about past lists, we don’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with other gigs, and […]
When you go to see Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Park Conservatory (and you definitely should) be sure to get there early. By 7:15pm, a group of musician/actors will be […]