Grassroots Shakespeare London celebrations. This production also played at the Dell Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. In August 2012 they devised a new production of "Much Ado About Nothing" for their summer residency at Victoria Embankment Gardens and were nominated by the Off West End Theatre Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Production. They also received recommendations from London newspaper "The Evening Standard" and "Time Out". In December 2012 to January 2013, the company performed a repertory season of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest". In 2013, the company presented a 'Summer of Love' repertory
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",