Rubber City Theatre opens its month-long spring repertory season shows, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Verge” at the Sandefur theater, located inside Guzzetta Hall at 228 E Buchtel Avenue, on the campus of The University of Akron, beginning on Saturday Feb. 21.

According to its website, the Spring Repertory Season features rotating repertory. This means the company presents multiple plays performed on alternating dates rather than one after another.

The artists rehearse all productions together, and performances rotate throughout the schedule.

“We have a good mix,” Sharon Jackson, Rubber City Theatre’s stage manager said. “We have some folks who have done shows with us years ago, and then we have some new faces.”

The repertory approach allows audiences to experience different stories, styles and performances in the same weekend, or even the same night. It also invites audiences to draw meaningful connections between the works.

This repertory season will feature Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for 10 performances, opening Saturday, Feb. 21 through its closing performance on Saturday, March 21. “The Verge,” a 1921 play by Susan Glaspell, will have five performances, opening March 6 through its closing performance on Thursday, March 19.

The repertory allows audience members to experience two very different shows and draw connections between them.

Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” focuses on love, magic and mistaken identity, while “The Verge,” one of the first feminist plays, explores themes of individuality and self-discovery through the story of a botanist who is so obsessed with her plants that she gets driven to madness.

Tickets for the Spring Repertory shows are free for University of Akron Students. Regular adult admission is $30, while tickets for seniors are $20 and tickets for children ages 6-17 are $15. Rubber City Theatre also offers a limited number of “pay what you can” seats that allow the audience member to pay what they can, making theatre accessible to all.

To see complete show dates and times and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.rubbercitytheatre.com/.