Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage. But it's also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise. The entire play is about the ways we mask our identity and hide our true feelings, literally and figuratively.

So often, when an audience sees Shakespeare done in 16th-century style, they hold it at a remove. My hope is that relocating the story to a more modern period will enable audiences to see the connections to our own time while still truly appreciating the revolutionary nature of Beatrice's rebellion.

There's only maybe two pages in Jane's book that deals with the marriage because she was really talking only about her becoming an EMT and going through this midlife crisis, ... So when Alan Hines wrote the screenplay, he sat down with Michael Stern and really got down to the bottom of what was going on in that relationship. The work was there in the script.

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

Singleness is better than Marriage if you haven’t mastered forgiveness and sacrificial love!

They weren't a stuffy family at all. They were very well-rounded. The play deals with the issue of the father's death.