Twelfth Night presented by Midsommer Flight at Lincoln Park Conservatory

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Amid the growing awareness of their attraction for each other, the show also features the delightful comic plotting of Reginald Hemphill’s aptly named Sir Toby Belch and Travis Shanahan’s hapless Sir Andrew Aguecheek against Rusty Allen’s stuffed shirt Malvolio, manservant to Olivia, and the comic and musical stylings of North Rory Homewood’s observant jester, Feste. A preshow songfest, featuring quirky numbers like Sandi Thom’s “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair”) lets the entire ensemble show off their musical skills."

Buzznews.net - Highly Recommended

"...Though TWELFTH NIGHT is MidsommerFlight’s perennial production, directors are rotated to offer a range of conceptual approaches to the comedy. This year’s Director, Bex Ehrmann (they/them) is queering up the Bard with a cast of diverse, trans and non-binary actors of various and sundry genders, races [albeit all human], and body types. Jack Morsovillo (he/him/his) is the Musical Director."

Third Coast Review - Highly Recommended

"...William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a mistaken-identity rom-com designed as a frolic to entertain at the end of the holiday season (there is nothing about Christmas in this play itself). That it is Shakespeare at his most broadly comic can be summed up in the names given three major characters: Sir Toby Belch; Sir Andrew Aguecheek (ague means violent fever); and Malvolio (which means ill will)."

Chicago On Stage - Highly Recommended

"...Midsommer Flight, the little company that loves putting on quality free—or pay-what-you-can—Shakespeare for the enjoyment of the masses, has returned with its annual production of the Bard’s Twelfth Night, staged as always at the Lincoln Park Conservatory. And, as always, the patrons in the Conservatory’s Show Room are treated to a rollicking good time by a cast of talented performers having the times of their lives."