Sirens, thunder, dive-bombing cicadas — all part of the challenge of putting on outdoor theater in Oak Park

At about 10:30 p.m. last Friday, Juliet had had enough. Thanks to an unnecessarily complicated plan that had gone awry, she’d found her teenage husband dead. Not being a plenty-more-fish-in-the-sea type, she snatched up his dagger and plunged it into her own chest. On cue, an ambulance siren began to wail in the distance — as if an unsuspecting passersby had witnessed the drama in the park and, to be safe, called 911. A little earlier in the evening, just as Romeo’s buddy Mercutio collapsed (also the victim of a...