Opens Friday, June 6, 8 p.m.

Summer has yet to officially start, but American Theatre Company steps ahead with Shakespeare on the Lawn and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fantasy comedy about quarrelsome royals, crafty sprites, fickle lovers and a goof troupe of would-be thespians lost in the forest is told on the lawn at Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S. Rockford Ave., a long-standing tradition between ATC and the museum. Viewers are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets and other comforts and enjoy under the night sky. Tickets are $10-$20 at www.myticketoffice.com.

Opens Thursday, June 5, 8 p.m.

If you think an Oklahoma summer is hot in shorts and T-shirts, try taking it on in full costume under stage lighting. For that reason, you won’t find a more dedicated cast and crew than Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s gang of thespians and techs tackling the elements and the Bard’s unabridged works for another summer season of shows at Myriad Botanical Gardens’ venues, 301 W. Reno Ave., Oklahoma City. The season opens with Twelfth Night, the romantic comedy of secret identities, a love triangle, warring kingdoms and yellow stockings opening at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 5, and running through June 29. The season continues with Antony and Cleopatra (July 3-18), Pericles (July 24-27 at the Oklahoma Civic Center Music Hall) and Macbeth (Sept. 11-27 at Oklahoma City Community College Performing Arts Center). Tickets for Twelfth Night are $10-$15. For more information and details about special related events, visit www.oklahomashakespeare.org.

Opens Saturday, June 7

If you’ve ever dropped in on OK Mozart, you know there’s more to the music festival than Mozart. After three decades, the showcase of art has gone from a mainstay for classical and chamber music performances to a celebration of all music. And these days, OK Mozart invites artists of all kinds – visual arts to theatrical – to Bartlesville’s venues. One location, however, is most prominent to the festival, and that’s the Bartlesville Community Center, 300 S.E. Adams Blvd. There, visitors this year will hear the masterful pianist John Kimura Parker, rising folk star Sarah Jarosz and the festival’s resident Amici New York Orchestra. Don’t restrict yourself to the center, however. The Miro Quartet plays at the city’s St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, while the orchestra brings patriotic numbers to the lawn at nearby Woolaroc Museum. Visit www.okmozart.com to see who’s playing where between Saturday, June 7, and Saturday, June 14.