Hartford Stage’s latest take on “Romeo and Juliet” is as focused on life as it is on the ill-fated lovers’ tragic deaths, according to director Melia Bensussen, who is also the theater’s artistic ...

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 ...

Everyone is familiar with “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare’s tale of two star-crossed lovers who die beside each other. But what if the two lovers hadn’t died and had instead successfully escaped the ...

In high school, a beloved, bookish teacher introduced me and the other students in her class to the classics of literature. Though her efforts to spark our interest went unrewarded, I read “The ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

On the night before an early morning at TODAY, Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor died. The actors lay prone onstage at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York, bleeding out in front of a captive, ...

We all know Romeo and Juliet to some extent, aka Shakespeare’s ultimate tale of forbidden love, star-crossed swoons, and tragic heartbreak. Over the decades, filmmakers and storytellers have brought ...

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is popular. By some accounts, it’s the second-most-performed Shakespeare play in the United States, and to many Americans who are used to high school English class, it ...

Caitlin Rose as Romeo, left, and Ashley McCauley Moore as Juliet, right, share a dance in Shakespeare & Company’s “Romeo and Juliet, ” running through Aug. 10. The pair previously played the ...

When Sam Gold’s new production of Romeo and Juliet, starring PYTs Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor, was announced back in April, the PR team came in hot. “THE YOUTH ARE F**KED,” shouted all the marketing ...

Washington National Opera’s Romeo and Juliet: Rosa Feola — Photo: Scott Suchman READ THIS REVIEW IN THE MAGAZINE Adding its voice — literally — to the District’s Shakespeare Everywhere festival, the ...