Bard on the Beach returns this summer with a pair of rom coms that couldn’t be more different from one another.

For its 2025 season, the not-for-profit professional Shakespeare festival presents Much Ado About Nothing and the Two Gentlemen of Verona on the BMO Mainstage in Vancouver.

Much Ado About Nothing is a classic work believed to have been written sometime in the period of 1598-1599. This comic romp in the Sicilian city of Messina follows the couple Benedick and Beatrice through a labyrinth of mistaken identity, battles between the sexes and ribald wit. The play has been adapted into numerous film and TV versions, as well as into young adult fiction. It is a clear classic of the canon.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona, believed to have been written sometime between 1589-1593, is consi

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