A Midsummer Night's Dream

Play by William Shakespeare

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2024
Wood Love
The restored print of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' had its Los Angeles premiere at the UCLA Festival of Preservation. The film was preserved and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from a 35mm nitrate silent tinted print, with restoration funding provided by Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
2022
The Fantasticks
Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, Michigan premiered a sex-changed version adapted by Jones and Michael Lluberes, incorporating LGBT themes and changing key character genders.
2020
The Fairy-Queen
Paul McCreesh recorded The Fairy-Queen with the Gabrieli Consort.
May 26 2020
BBC Television Shakespeare
All 37 plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series become available for streaming in North America via BritBox.
March 2019
Around the Beatles
An original ticket for the show's dress rehearsal was featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and valued at £100.
2018 The film was awarded Best Produced Drama at the National Film Awards in the UK.
2018 Film was released theatrically by Brainstorm Media, playing at Landmark Theatres and other venues nationwide during the summer.
2017 The film was nominated for the East End Film Festival.
2017 A Caribbean Dream, a romantic comedy adapting Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, was produced and directed by Melissa Simmonds and Shakirah Bourne.
2017 A Caribbean Dream received Best International Film at the Charlotte Black Film Festival.
2017 The film won Best Feature at the London Independent Film Festival.
June 2017 A Midsummer Night's Dream film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, receiving positive reviews.
2015
Around the Beatles
Footage of the Beatles performing 'Can't Buy Me Love' was included in the video portion of the 1 compilation reissue.
2012
The Fairy-Queen
Ottavio Dantone recorded The Fairy-Queen with Accademia Bizantina and New English Voices.
2010
The Fantasticks
By this year, the musical had over 11,000 productions in 3,000 cities and towns across all 50 U.S. states and 67 countries.
2010
The Fairy-Queen
William Christie directed a Glyndebourne production of The Fairy-Queen with Jonathan Kent as stage director, featuring the Glyndebourne Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which was released on DVD.

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Around the Beatles, Wood Love, A Caribbean Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film), BBC Television Shakespeare, The Fairy-Queen, The Fantasticks, A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017 film) & The Sandman: Dream Country, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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