"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, ill-conceived, dismayingly bungled production it is neither. Casting Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones (combined ages 158) as young-ish Beatrice and Benedick is an intriguing notion that... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PM on September 20, 2013