"Magical. The play looks brand new, beautiful and sexy in the hands of adapter-director Joe Calarco. This audacious and magnificent Calarco production is by far the most entertaining A Midsummer Night’s Dream I have ever seen."
— Donald Lyons, The New York Post

"Go to the Shakespeare Theatre and revel in a magical, fantastical, theatrically-inspired world---an earth-freeing flight of extraordinary creative and artistic imagination. Director Joe Calarco is an extraordinary talent."
— Roger Meersman, Journal Newspapers

"Calarco’s happily sex-crazed Dream has a surrealist, Felliniesque aesthetic…poetic and entertaining."
— Bob Mondello, Washington City Paper

"Magnificent. Truly Spectacular. A highlight of the current season. See it!"
— Bob Davis, WGMS 103.5

"Gorgeous. A rollicking good time."
— Leslie Milk, The Washingtonian