Love's Labor's Lost

The populist classicists of Smith Street Stage return to Brooklyn's Carroll Park with a modern twist on the Bard's hectic romantic comedy, in which a king and his lords forswear love for scholarship only to be dragged back into the game by visiting French maidens. In this version, directed by Raquel Chavez, the abstinence plot is reframed into a reality-TV gimmick, and their retreat is imaged as "part The Bachelor Villa de la Vina Mansion and part Love Island." No reservations are needed for this free outdoor staging.