The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare will be performed Feb. 25-28 at Rockford College’s Maddox Theatre, with performances Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Directed by Rockford College performing arts professor Deb Mogford, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy that portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke of Athens, Theseus, the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works for the stage, and is widely performed across the world.

Tickets are $10 general admission; $7 for students and seniors. For more information, call the Rockford College box office at (815) 226-4100 or see www.rockford.edu/?page=TheatreSeason.

From the Feb. 24-Mar. 2, 2010 issue

This story appeared at http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/02/24/rockford-college-to-stage-a-midsummer-night%E2%80%99s-dream-feb-25-28/ on February 24, 2010.