Taking place entirely during the opening night of a high school's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, OPENING NIGHT chronicles the on stage disasters and off-stage drama of a group of students, their drama teacher and a visiting B-list TV star.
Acting
Cheyenne Jackson commits to B-list narcissism completely
Writing
Shakespeare collides with teenage hormones spectacularly
Practical Effects
One-take energy makes stage disasters feel dangerously real
Director
Jack Henry Robbins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jack Henry Robbins is Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon's son, which explains the theatre pedigree and the absolute chaos energy.
The film's single-location real-time structure was shot in an actual high school theatre over six days, with cast members genuinely learning their Shakespeare on set.
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