Twice a week, actors from the Hill Country Theater don fairy wings and tights while spouting  Shakespearean prose as they parade through painted sets of ancient Athens and woodlands on the Lehman High School theater stage.

Thus is the setting of the newly formed community theater’s rehearsals for its first performance, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by William Shakespeare.

Doug DeGirolamo, president and founder of the group, has been passionate about theater most of his lif...