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New take on Shakespearean classic makes haste, is alive but is less aware than it could be by Chris Jones

Deep in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a weaver named Nick Bottom, the kind of ordinary, clumsy, clueless, overweight, middle-age, Cubs-and-Old Style-loving guy who can get his head transformed into that of an ass without really noticing the change, blinks up in disbelief at a gorgeous fairy queen, played by the beautiful Tracy Michelle Arnold, who has just told him that his shape, singing and beauty are so overwhelmin…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 02:12AM on February 16, 2012

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