Much ado has come of one Harlem high schooler’s “Much Ado About Nothing” monologue. Xavier Pacheco, 16, is the first New Yorker to win the nation’s largest competition for teen Bard fanatics — the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition. Just two years ago, the young thespian thought Shakespeare was boring. “I’d never read one of his plays before,” Pacheco admitted. “But if you sit down and read one,...
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