First Nighter: Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream Hits and Misses

If you know William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Julie Taymor's several publicity-nabbing productions -- many theater-goers are quite familiar with both -- then you kind of know what to expect when the latter Taymor takes on the former Shakespeare's comedy of love confused. What you get visually will knock your socks off. What you hear will keep your socks on. Well, whadya know, that's exactly what Julie Taymor, returning from her Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark exploits, delivers a...