Is there anyone who doesn’t know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the young star-crossed lovers? The challenge for a director, then, is how to retell the story to appeal to a younger audience. Director ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, which I guess must include the one embroidered on the black mesh singlet worn by Kit Connor. Sam Gold’s Gen Z Romeo + Juliet revival can be chaotic and ...

Inspired to work with her students on a classic tale, Friday Harbor High School theater teacher Lindsey Saarie is directing William Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy, ”Romeo and Juliet.” The high ...

The University of Iowa theater company will debut its rendition of Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet” on Oct. 1o. Reimagined by graduate student Søren Olsen, it takes the story that we all know ...

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 ...

As students in America reach high school, where they anxiously look forward to getting their driver’s license, enjoying their first encounter with “true love,” even dreaming about moving on to college ...

As one north-west theatre runs into a whole bunch of controversy around its apparent politicisation of the Bard (I’m looking at you, Royal Exchange), another is happily bidding to smash an entirely ...

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 ...

No matter how old the rest of us get, “Romeo and Juliet” stay the same age. Because we as an audience evolve, our perspective on the doomed lovers’ tale can shift, as every new version of the tragedy ...

Sam Gold directs the high-energy, TikTok-generation Broadway revival, which brings original Jack Antonoff tunes and a notably young ensemble to the classic romantic tragedy. By David Rooney Chief Film ...