Winter Garden Theatre
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonMatthew Dunster transposes Shakespeare's battle of the sexes comedy to the Mexican revolution, in a production with a fiesta spirit and a feisty BeatriceThe Summer…
There are some interesting gender politics at play, but nothing excuses the countless Mexican clichés in Matthew Dunster's production
It's fiesta time in Matthew Dunster's colourful new showWhen I say that Matthew Dunster's Much Ado is revolutionary I'm not talking about the many textual updatings and rewritings,…
When not dicking around with Dickens at the Open Air Theatre, Matthew Dunster has repeatedly demonstrated that he is a director who understands
Matthew Dunster brings some desert sun to a so far patchy summer, with his Mexican inspired production of Much Ado About Nothing. It truly is the beating heart of the Summer of Love, running…
Few Shakespeare plays are better suited to the time machine treatment than Much Ado About Nothing. After all, soldiers returning from battle
Shakespeare's comedy of errors in which all's well that ends well by Victor Cordell A moonshine swillin', cigar smokin', spittoon hawkin' bachelorette as a member of a feuding clan in Appala…
By HowlRound TV. Weyard Ensemble Theater presents a performance of Much Ado About Nothing: A Reading in the Original Pronunciation at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts, livestr…
By Alexa Terry Shit-Faced Shakespeare, with the essence of the rustic fringe festival at its heart, is a welcoming night of inebriated indecency which unshackles you from reality. This post …
I had the fairly disorientating experience of seeing two performances back to back half an hour apart in the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday night: Shit-faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About …
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThis tipsy performance of giggly, off-script improvisation is pointless if it's put-on, cruel if it's real, and staggeringly bad if you're soberThe most shock…
The company returns to London with their version of the Bard's romantic comedy
Marking the seven-year anniversary of the award-winning Shit-faced Shakespeare brand, the company are back in London with a brand new production for
Christopher Luscombe's 20th-century take on Shakespeare lights up the theatre world, while Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx team up for a balletMuch Ado About Nothing Continue re…
Audiences now have just six weeks left to see the RSC's critically acclaimed 2014 pairing of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing or Love's Labour's Won, having been charming audi…
Any company approaching Much Ado About Nothing faces a number of difficult hurdles. It features one of the most passive, flat, one-note villains in any Shakespearean play. It threads slapsti…
Zestful. Savvy. Crafty. Satisfying — Director Abigail Isaac Fine's feisty NextStop production of Shakespeare's battle-of-wits, romantic-comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a stimula…
The four friends that depart for the Western Front at the end of Christopher Luscombe's Edwardian reimagining of Love's Labour's Lost for the RSC, return in his twin production of Much Ado A…
The productions underline the rich resonances between these comedies
The Royal Shakespeare Company have managed to combine the two plays with ease and charm to provide a wonderfully entertaining time at the theatre.
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Christopher Luscombe's double dose of comedies begins elegantly, but when Lisa Dillon and Edward Bennett let fly in Much Ado, it becomes a festive romp3/5 an…
The Royal Shakespeare Company have burst back to the West End with their double bill of Love's Labour's - both Lost and Won. This pairing really is a remarkable achievement. Set in the summe…
By Mark Ludmon Despite the downbeat ending to Love’s Labour’s Lost and the troubles over Claudio and Hero’s wedding in Much Ado About Nothing, the two plays are very funny …