Midsummer Night's Dream presented by The Joffrey Ballet at Lyric Opera

Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...Dreams are often fodder for ballets. Solor takes an opium-induced voyage to the Kingdom of the Shades in “La Bayadere.” There’s Marie’s dreamy trip to the Kingdom of the Sweets (or, in Joffrey’s case, the World’s Columbian Exposition) in “The Nutcracker.” In every case, suspension of disbelief is a useful tool, as it is here. But “Midsummer” is more David Lynch than Marius Petipa. The latter was unapologetic about making exhibition pieces. The former seems to shroud profound meaning in a ridiculous package — not unlike the festivities “Midsummer Night’s Dream” seeks to unpack."

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...The Joffrey Ballet has overtaken the Lyric Opera House with a gorgeous, sensual Scandinavian solstice celebration with its rendition of Alexander Ekman’s lush 2015 ballet Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is an astonishing work of art."

WTTW - Highly Recommended

"...It is a very good bet that you have never seen (and might never see) anything quite like Swedish-born choreographer Alexander Ekman’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” unless you were fortunate enough to see it at its North American premiere by the Joffrey Ballet in 2018. And if you were lucky enough to catch that grand-scale, eye-popping, subtly sexy and altogether absurdly fantastical production — a celebration of the summer solstice and the Scandinavian Midsummer holiday — you are sure to want to see it again on the vast stage of the company’s home at the Lyric Opera House, where, it should be noted, the show is setting records with its large audiences."