Heart of America Shakespeare Festival What: “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” an early Shakespeare comedy from the late 16th century. When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays, June 17-July 6; gates open at 6 p.m.

Four hundred-year-old rumour has it that William Shakespeare was asked by Queen Elizabeth I to write The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy spin-off about iconic oaf John Falstaff, after the monarch so ...