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One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies featuring mischievious faries, unsuspecting lovers and bumbling actors.

Story:

Mismatched lovers Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena encounter a supernatural squabble that will alter their destinies forever. Will mischievous Puck create harmony or cacophony within the forest? Love, magic and wonder fill the air as dreams blend with reality in this must-see Shakespeare classic.

: Playwright
William Shakespeare

Broadway Premiere

Theatre: Park Theatre

Opening Night: Nov 9, 1826

1903 Broadway Revival

Theatre: New Amsterdam Theatre

Opening Night: Oct 26, 1903

Total Performances: 24

Original Cast: Arthur Barry, F. Bayly, Ida Conquest, Margaret Crawford, Gilbert Douglas, Thelma Fair, William Farnum, Etienne Girardot, Nat C. Goodwin, A. Heerman, T. Heerman, Kathryn Hutchinson, I. Kaufman, R. Kaufman, Mayme Kelso, Helene Lackaye, Edmund D. Lyons, Neil O'Brien, Boyd Putnam, Florence Rockwell, William Sampson, Lillian Swain, Etta Weir, White Whittlesey

Director: Herbert Gresham and Edmund D. Lyons

Producer: Klaw & Erlanger

Incidental Music: Felix Mendelssohn

Music Arrangement: Victor Herbert

1906 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Astor Theatre

Opening Night: Sep 21, 1906

Total Performances: 34

Original Cast: Lionel Adams, Ina Brooks, William Brown, John Bunny, Vinnie Burns, Thomas Coffin Cooke, Wilmer Dame, Elizabeth Doddridge, Belle Fairchild, William H. Gilmore, Atkins Lawrence, Richard Lee, Edward Longman, Edwin Mordant, Hubert Osborne, Catherine Proctor, Lansing Rowan, Annie Russell, Bessie Shrednecky, Leon Straus, Jennie Urwin, Oswald Yorke, James Young

Producer: Wagenhals and Collin Kemper

1910 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Garden Theatre

Opening Night: Jan 17, 1910

Original Cast: Ben Greet, George Vivian, Ruth Vivian

Producer: Ben Greet Repertory

1915 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Wallack's Theatre

Opening Night: Feb 16, 1915

Original Cast: Mary Barton, Eric Blind, Horace Braham, Lionel Braham, Cecil Cameron, George Carr, Ernest Cossart, Valerie Cossart, Walter Creighton, Gerald Hamer, O. P. Heggie, Isabel Jeans, Edgar Kent, Bertha Kirstein, Wright Kramer, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Arnold Lucy, Ian Maclaren, Lillah McCarthy, Arthur Oppenheim, Audrey Ridgewell, Edward Roberts

Director: Granville Barker

1920 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Little Theatre

Opening Night: May 18, 1920

Total Performances: 7

Director: Ellen Van Volkenburg

1927 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Century Theatre

Opening Night: Nov 17, 1927

Total Performances: 23

Original Cast: Othmar Biegler, Lili Darvas, Paul Hartmann, Dietrich Jenke, Arnold Korff, Harald Kreutzberg, Tillie Losch, Ernst Matray, Alexander Moissi, Hans Moser, Rosamond Pinchot, Erich Schilling, Dagny Servaes, Wladimir Sokoloff, Maria Solveg, Hans Thimig, Hermann Thimig, Eduard Von Winterstein, Otto Wallburg

Producer: Max Reinhardt

1932 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre

Opening Night: Nov 17, 1932

Total Performances: 27

Original Cast: Leslie Austen, Hanna Marie Barrie, Catherine Ann Carr, Curtis Conwaye, Curtis Cooksey, Charles Dingle, Carolyn Ferriday, Rose D. Fox, Frederica Going, Maurice Greet, Robert Hamilton, Paul Hirsch, Vilma Hoover, Jacqueline Hoyt, Harry Joyner, Audrey Kettle, Judith Lawrence, Ian Maclaren, Jane Marsh, Anne Middleton, Grace Halsey Mills, Irving Morrow, Hugh F. Noall, Nora Novik, Russell Rhodes, Florence Robinson, Donald Somers, Paula Trueman, Percival Vivian, Ruth Vivian

Director: Percival Vivian

Producer: Shakespeare Theatre Company

1954 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House

Opening Night: Sep 21, 1954

Total Performances: 29

Original Cast: Robert Helpmann, Stanley Holloway, Moira Shearer, Valerie Adams, Ivan Baptie, Joan Benham, Jocelyn Britton, Mary Brookes, Louise Carley, Rudolfo Cornejo, Margaret Courtenay, Tania d'Avray, Nadia de Lichtenberg, John Dearth, Juliet Ellice, Mary Fenwick, Jeremy Geidt, Philip Guard, Phyllis Harcourt, David Harding, Michael Hayes, Vivienne Hetzel, David Hurst, Peter Johnson, Lana Kassinova, Joan King, Margaret Knoesen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Philip Locke, Terence Longdon, Patrick MacNee, Eliot Makeham, William Martin, Kenneth Melville, Rosemary Moore, Henry Naughton, Gillian Neason, Anthony Nicholls, Joanne Nisbet, Michael Redington, David Reynolds, David Rose, Norman Rossington, Betty Shale, Jane Shore, Josephine Spaull, Suzanne Steele, David Stevens, Daniel Thorndike, Sven van Zyl, Elisabeth Wade, Ann Walford, Anne Wilson, Sheila Wright

Director: Michael Benthall

Chroegrapher: Robert Helpmann

Producer: S. Hurok

Music By: Felix Mendelssohn

Music Arrangements: Gordon Jacob

Costume Design: Christopher Ironside and Robin Ironside

1971 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Billy Rose Theatre

Opening Night: Jan 20, 1971

Total Performances: 62

Original Cast: Martin Best, Hugh Keays Byrne, Ralph Cotterill, Frances de la Tour, Alan Howard, John Kane, Sara Kestelman, Ben Kingsley, Glynne Lewis, Philip Locke, Phillip Manikum, Tony McVey, Celia Quicke, Mary Rutherford, Barry Stanton, Patrick Stewart, Terence Taplin, David Waller, Robin Weatherall, John York

Director: Peter Brook

Producer: David Merrick Arts Foundation, The Royal Shakespeare Company

Scenic Design: Sally Jacobs

Costume Design: Sally Jacobs

Lighting Design: Lloyd Burlingame

1999 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 31, 1996

Total Performances: 65

Original Cast

Director: Adrian Noble

Producer: Terry Allen Kramer, James L. Nederlander, Carole Shorenstein Hays, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Elizabeth I. McCann