Outstanding Production 2009, Elliot Norton Awards

“Fleet of foot and light of heart, the Boston Theatre Works production of A Midsummer Night's Dream dances merrily through Shakespeare's enchanted forest, pausing just long enough to let us glimpse the shadows in the woods… This Dream manages to cast the spell that can elude more lavish stagings… It's all that this spirited and polished cast, directed with zest and clarity by Daniel Elihu Kramer, needs to make a ‘Dream’ come true.”
-Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe

“Daniel Elihu Kramer helmed a delightful, subconscious-driven A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Boston Theatre Works in which Paula Plum played the King of the Fairies and everyone scampered across a forest floor sprouting elastic poppies.”
-Year in Review, Boston Phoenix 

“Kramer’s lithe ensemble of eight are ingeniously deployed as lovers, fairies, and rude mechanicals… The actors manage to turn up in new guises faster than Puck can put a girdle ‘round about the earth,’ and Kramer has done some trimming, all of which adds up to a two-hour staging…that is spry, beguiling, and funny.”
-Carolyn Clay, Boston Phoenix

“The Boston Theatre Works has raised the bar on Shakespearean comedies with a riotous production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream done just the way the Bard would’ve liked it.  Stripped of all the pretentious accoutrements most Shakespeare has acquired over the last century or so, this Daniel Elihu Kramer production relies solely on great acting and impeccable comic timing to create a delightful evening of theater.”
-Nick Dussault, Boston Metro

“Can you do Midsummer with only eight actors? Boston Theatre Works can… Director Daniel Elihu Kramer has put his Athenians in off-the-rack dark contemporary dress, demanded licketysplit but honestly human readings for everybody, and sent them rocketing around in clear breakneck blocking… This is a delicately nuanced Midsummer Night full of expressive subtlety.”
-Larry Stark, Theatre Mirror