Posts tagged “shakespeare”

A musical retelling of *A Midsummer Night's Dream* about a gay boy with a potion that turns people gay. Singing, dancing, hot boys in glitter pants. It's my perfect film and I can't find it playing anywhere, not even in San Francisco.

Saw *As You Like It* at the Wyndham with A. Beautifully spoken Shakespeare, 1920s costumes, folk songs and big-band numbers, slapstick, and unsubtle innuendo. Theatre at its best: unpretentious, slightly silly, a little dirty, and entirely fun.

Saw Shakespeare's R&J last night and it's brilliant in ways no review quite captures. Four repressed Catholic schoolboys secretly act out Romeo and Juliet after lights-out, but their own feelings become tangled with the text. The acting is ferociously energetic, the dual plots stunning. Go see it.