American Ballet Theatre
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The Dream
David H Koch Theater · New York
28 Oct 2026
30 $ – 175 $
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Production
Ballet
The Dream – David H Koch Theater, New York
- Date
- Wednesday, 28 October 2026
- Time
- 19:30
- Duration
- 00:52
- Venue
- David H Koch Theater
- Address
- 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
- City
- New York
- Organisation
- American Ballet Theatre
- Work
- The Dream
- Price range
- 30 $ – 175 $
About this event
The Dream is Frederick Ashton's one-act ballet adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The 2026 presentation is included in American Ballet Theatre's Fall program An Elegy and A Dream, with performances scheduled at David H. Koch Theater in New York. The production transfers Shakespeare's comedy of errors to the magical woods of Victorian England. Its central artistic concept is a ballet treatment of love as an unstable or illusory force, expressed through Ashton's choreography and Felix Mendelssohn's score. Sets and costumes are by David Walker, lighting is by John B. Read, and the work is staged by Sir Anthony Dowell and Christopher Carr. No cast has been published for the 2026 performances.
Cast & creative
Choreographer
Frederick Ashton
Set designer
David WalkerCostume designer
David Walker
Lighting designer
John B Read- A
Stager
Anthony Dowell - C
Stager
Christopher Carr - F
Composer
Felix Mendelssohn - J
Composer
John Lanchbery - W
Librettist
William Shakespeare Hays