Sunday, July 21, 2013

Michigan Shakespeare Festival Showcases Goofy, Romantic Plays


Summer theater used to be filled with light comedies, mindless musicals and other silliness. But things have been changing. Those summer stock favorites have moved over to give way to Shakespeare.

Yes, the warm months have sprouted lots of Shakespeare festivals, and many are a lot closer than Stratford, Ontario.


This weekend is the opening for the 19th season of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, a professional company, and it is serving up three lavishly produced plays, performed in repertory: Shakespeare’s funny and frothy “Twelfth Night” and rarely seen “King John,” and a comedy of manners and satire, “She Stoops to Conquer,” by Oliver Goldsmith.

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For more information about a wonderful romantic comedy please visit What Would Meg Do?

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