Utah Shakespeare Festival are: "Much Ado About Nothing" (William Shakespeare), "Henry V" (William Shakespeare) and "The Three Musketeers" (Ken Ludwig). Plays in the new Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre are "Julius Caesar" (William Shakespeare) and "Murder for Two" (Kinosian and Blair). Plays in the Randall L. Jones Theatre are "Mary Poppins" (Sherman, Sherman, Fellowes), "The Odd Couple" (Neil Simon) and "The Cocoanuts" (Berlin, Kaufman) The Festival was founded in 1961, presented its first season in 1962. It is one of the oldest and largest Shakespearean festivals in North America. The Festival is located in Cedar City, Utah, a community of approximately 28,000
Much Ado About Nothing the album is also a quotation from the play. The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. In 2015, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the music for a rock opera adaptation of the play, "These Paper Bullets", which was written by Rolin Jones. In 2017, a YA adaptation was released by author Mckelle George called "Speak Easy, Speak Love", where the events of the play take place in the 1920s, focused around a failing speakeasy. In 2018, author Molly Booth released a summer YA novel adaptation called "Nothing Happened",