Editing Love's Labour's Lost (section)

=== Musical theatre, opera, and plays ===

An [[Love's Labour's Lost (opera)|opera of the same title]] as the play was composed by [[Nicolas Nabokov]], with a libretto by [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Chester Kallman]], and first performed in 1973.

In the summer of 2013, [[The Public Theater]] in New York City presented a musical adaptation of the play as part of their [[Shakespeare in the Park]] programming. This production marked the first new Shakespeare-based musical to be produced at the [[Delacorte Theater]] in [[Central Park]] since the 1971 mounting of ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' with music by [[Galt MacDermot]]. The adaptation of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' featured a score by ''[[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]'' collaborators [[Michael Friedman (composer)|Michael Friedman]] and [[Alex Timbers]]. Timbers also directed the production, which starred [[Daniel Breaker]], [[Colin Donnell]], [[Rachel Dratch]], and Patti Murin, among others.<ref name=Hetrick>{{cite news| last=Hetrick| first=Adam| title=Shakespeare in the Park Musical Adaptation of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' Premieres July 23| url=https://www.playbill.com/article/shakespeare-in-the-park-musical-adaptation-of-loves-labours-lost-premieres-july-23-com-207504| access-date=5 January 2022| newspaper=Playbill| date=23 July 2013| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The 2004 [[ska]] musical ''[[The Big Life (musical)|The Big Life]]'' is based on ''Love's Labour's Lost'', reworked to be about the [[Windrush generation]] arriving in London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/apr/18/theatre1|title=Reach for the ska|last=Ojumu|first=Akin|date=2004-04-17|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-01|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Marc Palmieri's 2015 play ''The Groundling'',<ref>Palmieri, Marc (2015). ''The Groundling''. New York: Dramatists Play Service. {{ISBN|978-0-8222-3347-3}}.</ref> a farce the ''[[New York Times]]'' referred to as "half comedy and half tragedy", was billed as a "meditation on the meaning of the final moments of ''Love's Labour's Lost''".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html|title=Review: ''The Groundling'', a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak|first=Alexis|last=Soloski|date=20 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722085404/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html|archive-date=22 July 2017|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>