Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Charles Pasternak

Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies. Of all the couples in Shakespeare, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and Benedict. Their battle of wits, their antagonism turned to eroticism, their history. Before the play begins, they already seem to define each other. The audience, like the other characters in the play, wait with excitement as their wits clash, and eventually, as their love blossoms.

PERFORMANCES:

• Saturday, July 11 @ 2PM
• Tuesday, July 14 @ 8PM
• Thursday, July 16 @ 8PM – opening
• Saturday, July 18 @ 8PM
• Sunday, July 19 @ 2PM
• Friday, July 24 @ 8PM
• Saturday, July 25 @ 2PM
• Wednesday, July 29 @ 12PM – family days
• Friday, July 31 @ 8PM
• Saturday, August 1 @ 2PM
• Sunday, August 2 @ 2PM
• Wednesday, August 5 @ 12PM – family days
• Wednesday, August 5 @ 7PM – pre-show dramaturgy
• Saturday, August 8 @ 8PM
• Sunday, August 9 @ 2PM – all-ages matinee
• Thursday, August 13 @ 7PM
• Sunday, August 16 @ 7PM
• Tuesday August 18 @ 7PM – pre-show chat; post-show talk-back
• Friday, August 21 @ 8PM
• Saturday, August 22 @ 2PM – post-show talk-back
• Wednesday, August 26 @ 7PM
• Saturday, August 29 @ 8PM
• Sunday, August 30 @ 2PM – closing

RUN TIME:

• 2 and 1/2 hours with one 20-minute intermission

TICKETS: 

• TBA
• Call the SCS box office at 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m

VENUE: 

• Santa Cruz Shakespeare main stage
  Audrey Stanley Grove in DeLaveaga Park
  501 Upper Park Road, Santa Cruz, CA