A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM IN BROOKLYN
**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER By: G. H. HARDING **** A Midsummer Night's Dream A December Dream --- I was at the opening of Julie Taymor’s soon-to-be-massive theater game changer The Lion King on October 15, 1997 at the New Amsterdam Theatre in NYC. Minute by minute the audience gasped at each and every moment onstage and from then on I was a huge, huge Taymor-devotee. I watched her direction in the momentous movie Across The Universe and watched her exploits in Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark… which I immediately embraced. Sure, things turned sour with Spidey and she left, although from what I hear, things proceeded as if she was still there as the re-booted performance borrowed heavily from her initial work. This weekend I visited the brand new Theatre For A New Audience in Brooklyn and watched her production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and want to go immediately on the record as proclaiming this new work utterly brilliant. Her take on one o...