Much Ado About Nothing

August Short Fuses – Materia Critica

August 5, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Much Ado” — “A Giddy Thing”

July 29, 2022
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Shakespeare’s text has been streamlined for easy consumption on a summer’s evening — there’s no intermission, lots of physical comedy, and a party vibe.

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Theater Review: A Raucous Zoomified “Much Ado” — “Thou Art Muted, Don Pedro”

November 21, 2020
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Hub Theatre’s virtual production of Much Ado About Nothing recognizes Zoom’s potential for farce and leans into it: this is a rollicking delight of a show that refuses to take itself seriously, to everyone’s benefit.

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Theater Review: “Much Ado” About Something New

May 2, 2018
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Shining leads make up for a problem play that, in this production, has been further problematized.

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Fuse Film Review: The Cartagena International Film Festival 2016

March 10, 2016
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It’s easy to understand the lure of this historic walled city on the Caribbean.

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Theater Review: “Much Ado About” Sexting and Social Media

October 25, 2014
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This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults about sexting

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Fuse Theater Review: Barrington Stage Company Serves up a Lavish “Much Ado”

August 12, 2013
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From the first clearly projected lines to the last, it’s obvious that director Julianne Boyd set out to direct a production of Much Ado where language rules supreme.

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