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At Shakespeare Theatre Company, whirlwind of a Bottom spins 'Midsummer' for laughs by Peter Marks

As socko finishes go, few comedies can match the one William Shakespeare came up with 400-plus years ago for "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The mirthfully tragic "Pyramus and Thisbe" skit " an Elizabethan foreshadowing of the canon of Mel Brooks " is as close to a guarantee of giddy-ever-after as any bit of amusement a playwright has ever put to paper. Read full article >>

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:01PM on November 28, 2012

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