WAMU and Lean & Hungry Theater will present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing this evening at American University’s Woods-Brown Amphitheater.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company‘s beautifully staged production of Much Ado About Nothing entertains and amuses, making for an evening well-spent.

The cast of Folger’s Much Ado About Nothing. Does director Timothy Douglas’s choice to set Folger’s production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing during the D.C. Caribbean Carnival feel arbitrary? Sure. Does it matter? Not entirely. The setting, while not really transforming this production of the classic tale of bickering lovers into something new, awards a carefree, colorful spirit to the proceedings. The closing wedding scene is visually brought to life with bright, feathered…

If you’re the type who turns to your friends haughtily when they’re jonesing for some Hamlet or Othello and replies contemptuously, “I don’t pay for Shakespeare,” it’s almost your time of year. That’s right, while companies like Folger Shakespeare Theatre and Washington Shakespeare Company are wrapping up their productions, and we’ll have to wait until 2007 for the amazing Shakespeare In Washington extravaganza, we still have options to get our Bard fix, and we don’t…

DCist is through with living a lie. We have to confess: we’re developing quite the crush on Kate Eastwood Norris. After seeing her shine as the barb-tongued Beatrice in Folger’s Much Ado About Nothing last October, it was no surprise to catch the Helen Hayes award nominee investing Anna, one half of the tumultuous lesbian couple at the center of David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, with the same kind of unbridled energy and wry wit we…

Before there was Lois and Clark, Hepburn and Tracy or David and Maddie, there was Beatrice and Benedick. Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, now being staged at the Folger Theatre, gave us the original archetypes who proved that if a couple doesn’t wittily express their initial hatred before eventually realizing they’re nuts about each other, they’re really not all that interesting to watch. And Folger’s duo is certainly more than interesting enough to keep…