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Oak Park had a Shakespeare theatre previous to OPFT. In the 1950s and 1960s, producers Josephine Forsberg, Ed Udovic, and actor-director Lee Henry created Village Classics Theatre and produced The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, and other productions outdoors on the hill of Field Playground under the auspices of the Recreation Department of the Village of Oak Park.
Tickets to Shakespeare in the Park are free and tickets for a given performance are distributed the same day by various methods: Central Park distribution – Up to two tickets per person are distributed outside the Delacorte Theater. The line for tickets forms when the park opens at 6 a.m. and grows until tickets are distributed at noon.
The Public Theater has produced over 120 plays and musicals at the Delacorte Theater in New York City's Central Park since the theater's opening in 1962. Currently the series is produced under the brand Free Shakespeare in the Park , and all productions are staged at the Delacorte.
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" runs Aug. 2-4 at Trestle Park. John MacNaughton is the producer, and Steve Kiersey is the director.
The first full season, in 1933, included a revival of the previous year’s Twelfth Night and the first of the theatre's almost 50 productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. [12] In 1939, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and the Windmill Theatre were the only two theatres to remain open throughout World War II. [13]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream has been produced many times in New York, including a production by the Theatre for a New Audience, produced by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater, and also several stagings by the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.
A Midsummer Night's Dream serves as an exploration of the green world through the fairies' interference in the romantic entanglement of the Athenian lovers. The majority of the play's action takes place in the woods outside of Theseus' Athens, with Shakespeare primarily using Athens to frame the narrative in civilization. [3]