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Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: Deliciously detailed take on Shakespeare’s summer comedy

4/5 There’s newfound depth and heaps of humour in Chelsea Walker’s stylish new staging of the beloved Shakespeare play

Evening Standard

Chelsea 1-0 Everton: Premier League – as it happened

Chelsea boosted their hopes of a Champions League spot as Nicolas Jackson ended his goal-drought with a first-half winner to sink Everton

The Guardian - UK

Much ado about a can of vodka at Table Top Shakespeare

36 Shakespeare plays in eight days? All the world's a table top, where the players are cans of drink and toilet rolls.

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The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Ken: Barbie style star is still making menswear shimmer

Almost two years on from film’s debut, Ryan Gosling character’s himbo look has reached the West End in London

The Guardian - UK

Tom Hiddleston is on winning bum-wiggling form in Much Ado About Nothing

4/5 Hiddleston and Marvel co-star Hayley Atwell quip their way through this calculatedly naff Shakespeare revamp featuring Noughties pop ballads

The Independent UK

Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell have potent chemistry in this rave-tastic Shakespeare production

5/5 Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing proves stunt casting works when the stars have this much rizz

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Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink

With a chemistry that is as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern romcom

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe review: this sunkissed production is joyful and intelligent

Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey are arch and spirited as the central, wittily unwilling lovers

Evening Standard

Five of the best books about gossip

Cruelty, nosiness, truth-telling: whatever you call it, it appears in every community – and in plenty of works of literature too

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing: National Youth Theatre gives Shakespeare the Love Island treatment

“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating show Love Island. “Rich, that’s certaine” responds Benedick, a contestant on “Nothing Island”, who appears to know exactly what he likes. “Wise, or I’ll none”, “virtuous”, “fair”, “mild” – though he concedes he is not…

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Much Ado About Nothing review – screwball Shakespeare goes with a swing

Simon Godwin masterfully directs a slick production starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan

The Guardian - UK

Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre review: Sorely disappointing

It’s not a bad show, just ponderous and hollow

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Katherine Parkinson: ‘I used to think it was not a big deal being sexually fulfilled... But it’s massively important to your entire being’

The ‘IT Crowd’ and ‘Here We Go’ star is playing Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. She talks to Jessie Thompson about using wit as a defence, problematic Shakespeare plays and why female desire is a feminist issue

Evening Standard

Much Ado About Nothing review: A smart, stylish staging

Director Lucy Bailey’s production offers a purely pleasurable evening at the Globe

The Guardian - US

Much ado about Doug: second gentleman takes spotlight at Shakespeare debate

Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, argues in a mock trial hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company and presided over by Stephen Breyer

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