The Mobile Shakespeare Unit of the New York Public Theater will tour the following venues in all five boroughs of New York City with “Much Ado About Nothing” from November 4 to 2…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: Traffic Of The Stage's upbeat take on this Shakespeare comedy is fluffy and enjoyable but the finer nuances of the play are often lost. The cast have …
Stalwart stage and screen icons James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave have teamed up for an intriguingly-cast new production of William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT N…
- Our review of Vanessa Redgrave's and James Earl Jones''s Beatrice and Benedick is summed up with s Dogberry's "When the age is in, the wit is out." . .
On paper, Much Ado About Nothing should be a slick and inspiring affair, filled with great award winning actors and those great theatrical moments that everybody loves Shakespeare for…
Episode 60:Â Much Ado About Nothing YouTube Fireside Chat This week Craig and Lindsay discuss interpretation as they look at different video clips for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About No…
Old Vic; Noël Coward; Bush, LondonMark Rylance's Much Ado About Nothing positively creaks, while Rory Kinnear makes a promising debut as a playwrightIt's hard to believe that Mark Rylance…
"Much Ado About Nothing" is the blueprint for rom-coms, but what makes it fascinatingly unique is that it's both comedy and tragedy. Except that in the Old Vic's ill-conceived, witless, i…
Admirers of the chemistry between Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy can scarcely have dreamt that the next time they saw this pair on stage it would be as Beatrice …
What a contrast between the two major Shakespeare productions in London this week. The first took us back to the summer of love and a celebration of youth, while Mark Rylance's take on th
Old Vic, London: Strained, perverse, unfunny: in this geriatric wartime Much Ado, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones (combined age, 158 years) unwisely extend the possibility of love'…
Old Vic, LondonI am the last person to complain about senior citizens being given free rein. I also hold Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in high regard and thought their performances i…
"What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?" Surely never before has Benedick's opening quip cut so close to the literal, nor drawn such a laugh from its audience. With a combined age o…
Pizzicato magazine has posted their review of “Erich W. Korngold: Much Ado about Nothing, op.11″. After a somewhat terrifying beginning, this turns into another fantastic i…
Much Ado About Nothing | 1984 | The Herd | To Sir, With Love | On Golden Pond | A Lady Of Little SenseMuch Ado About Nothing, LondonThe sparring lovers of Much Ado About Nothing are normally…
"If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star." Says Benedick of Beatrice in the Annapolis Shakespeare Company's prod…
Any man that hath no beard she be too much a woman for him, and the man that hath a beard he be too much a man for her. That's Beatrice of Much Ado About Nothing in a nutshell as … Con…
Barrington Stage's first Shakespeare production is amusingly provocative and reminds us that what is the most valuable is never a mere nothing.
Barrington Stage Company BSC, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd Artistic Director and TriStan Wilson Managing Director, presents Wil…
Barrington Stage Company BSC, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson Managing Director, presents Wil…
Oh that someone were here to write him down an ass! Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Alex Foley is far from being an ass, but getting to embody one of the most backwardly hilarious characters…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing is a bright, cheeky spin on a classical comedy. Set in the 1950s, the atmosphere feels more suited to Noel Coward than Wi…
Barrington Stage Company presents William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by BSC artistic director Julianne Boyd, which officially opens Aug. 11 following previews that be…