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 …
These sunny comedies are rich in delight but lacking in darkness"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo." A sudden cold breeze blows through the endless summer afternoon of…
Actress Lisa Dillon's numerous stage credits include King John at Rose Theatre, Kingston, Hapgood at Hampstead Theatre, Design for Living at the Old Vic, The Knot of the Heart at the Almeida…
National Theatre of Catalonia, Barcelona presents its Shakespearean comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" adapted by Àngel Llà cer that will be on view through January 1, 2017.The great Shak…
The Masqueraders' production of Much Ado about Nothing at the United States Naval Academy, directed by Dr. Megan Geigner, is an inventive twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy. Set in New Me…
Wyndham's Theatre, LondonArt is not a competition. Since, however, this is the second Much Ado in five days, comparisons are inevitable. And, while Jeremy Herrin's version at Shakespeare's G…
By Douglas Mayo The Only Way is Shakespeare? Staged in contemporary Essex in a garrison town, (not very subtly hinting that it takes place in Colchester), this production manages to misfire …
A couple of years ago the Royal Shakespeare Company paired Love's Labours Lost with Much Ado About Nothing (renamed Love's Labours Won) in a gorgeous setting amidst the Great War to much acc…
The designer on how he's approached staging Shakespeare's plays to run back to back