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MIDSUMMER at ASF: "Though she be but little, she is fierce!"

4/20/2016

After the joy of playing Helena off-Broadway last year, I couldn't be having more fun playing her counterpart, Hermia, here at ASF.

The lavish production, sponsored by the late Harper Lee (an ASF aficionado) celebrates the Festival's 30th Anniversary Season.

NY Times on A Midsummer Night's Dream:

"Warm-blooded, frolicsome and splendidly cast, this production at the 47th Street Theater leads with its heart. Nimbly played, the lively young lovers seem as if they could live down the Street...They swoon, and we feel their rapture. They torment one another, and we pity their pain. When something is funny, which is often, the audience bubbles with belly laughter. The quality of mirth here is not strained, not even close, and thank goodness for that."

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