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The A.R.T.’s club OBERON is “game-changing. . . . OBERON will woo new theatergoers with a vibe that’s anything but theater as usual.” —Boston Herald

It’s a typical Saturday night for Mauriello, one of the stars of Diane Paulus’s “The Donkey Show.” It starts at the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon stage and ends, like Saturday nights at Harvard often do, with a Felipe’s run.

In a clubscape that can feel highly fragmented, where night owls tend to find their micro-scene and stick to it, The Donkey Show at Oberon achieves the impossible: blurring every last social boundary with a scandalous amount of glittery skin and thumping disco anthems that thrust every gamine hip into reimagining Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the bacchanalia’s loosely insinuated theme.

The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater thinks theater should be more like a rock concert.

From the moment you enter the doors of Oberon on the edge of Harvard Square, you can sense the innovation — part nightclub, part burlesque cabaret.

Theatermania: A.R.T.’s new artistic director Diane Paulus is committed to moving theater forward and challenging audiences. 

The Donkey Show is “the most alive, immersive piece of theater I’ve ever been dunked in. . . . Whatever Puck is pushing, the love juice in Shakespeare’s little western flower is less cocaine than pure adrenaline.” – Boston Phoenix 

Video: NECN Style Boston’s Terri Stanley talks to Diane Paulus about The Donkey Show.

“With The Donkey Show, Diane Paulus has changed the face of A.R.T. in one fell swoop. . . . It’s a great night out. – Boston Herald

Listen to WBUR’s Andrea Shea interview Diane Paulus and watch a WBUR video of The Donkey Show