Since April 23, 2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, it shouldn't be surprising that homages to the great playwright will be popping up right, left and center. Already available is Mike Bartlett's Charles III, a hot-ticket contemporary vision of the next English monarch's reign told with Shakespearean references in iambic pentameter. Now comes These Paper Bullets!, Rolin Jones's Much Ado About Nothing rewrite, at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, set in 1964. Shakespeare idolaters will instantly recognize that year as the 400th anniversary of the Bard's Stratford-upon-Avon birth. It's also the year of The Beatles going global, which allows the...
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