Editor’s note: Mark Auerbach passed away on Friday, May 2, before this review was able to be published. In honor of Mark’s devotion to theatre and in the spirit of the adage “the show must go on,” The ...

There’s probably never been a time as ripe with “Romeo and Juliet” rip-offs as our contemporary era. Though it’s been 29 years since Baz Luhrmann’s modern, alternative-pop-scored “William ...

NCRT’s decision to use an innovative approach in its staging of Shakespeare’s beloved classic, “Romeo and Juliet,” involved having a four-member directing team with a collective, creative vision, one ...

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company began its season in July with a cabaret-style revue called “Shake It Up.” Now, roughly halfway through the summer, it’s shaking things up again — this time not always in ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is Shakespeare’s actual ...

Hartford Stage is offering a “Romeo & Juliet” that’s not about noble “houses,” or “fortunes” or even laser-focused on the two characters whose names are in the title. This is Romeo and Juliet and ...

For my first review of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Pulaski Academy was the perfect place for this performance, because who better to understand the saga ...

How do you “refresh” Romeo and Juliet, a play so completely subsumed within contemporary culture that much of the script now sounds cliché? According to director Sean Holmes, you make it a Western.

Few stories are as renowned as William Shakespeare’s classic tragic love story Romeo and Juliet, but that famous story is being flipped on its head with the old west-themed fantasy adventure graphic ...