The familiar characters seem to have extra vitality in Orlando Shakes’ “Romeo & Juliet,” directed by Monica Long Tamborello.

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 ...

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 ...

There are two ways of reading Romeo and Juliet, one of which is correct, in the sense that it is the way that Shakespeare meant it to be read and understood, and the other is incorrect, in the sense ...

That’s the question you might be asking sometime during Broadway’s most recent foray into bringing Shakespeare to the masses who can afford really expensive tickets. And the latest Bard venture is a ...

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 ...

Shakespeare & Company presents ROMEO AND JULIET directed by Kevin G. Coleman and Jonathan Epstein. Epstein, who noted he and Coleman have collectively directed more than 20 productions of ROMEO AND ...

We’re living in the Golden Age of Mashups, e.g., Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” (1885) turned into Percival Everett’s “James” (2024). Works by Jane Austen, A. Conan Doyle — anything out of copyright is ...

You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas than ...

How do we stop the age-old slaughter — Capulets killing Montagues, Russians bombing Ukrainians, Israelis annihilating Palestinians (and all vice versa, as well)? Here’s a thought: Tell that very old ...