George Balanchine’s two-act “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ (1962) is not so much a telling of Shakespeare’s tale — though it is that, too — as a distillation of the play’s themes: the entanglements and blindness of love, the folly of fate, and the transformative power of dreams, whether at night, as we sleep, or in the light of day.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:08PM on April 8, 2011