A few days ago, I gave a talk on Romeo and Juliet to a high-school freshman class, after which I endeavored to answer the many great questions that the students asked. It dawned on me that these young ...

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 ...

Merging stage with film and audio drama, a pair of new versions evolve the tale via a theater in lockdown and a bilingual interpretation of the stage classic. In the last 404 years, “Romeo and Juliet” ...

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 ...

THE BASICS: ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare, presented by Shakespeare in Delaware Park (SIDP), directed by Chris Kelly, starring Aidan Conklin and Erin Grace Kely in the title roles. July 27 – ...

Skinheads, drag queens, and leather-boy desperadoes. Silver designer pistols that look as if they were engraved at a Rodeo Drive boutique. Gunfights and brawls edited with such whiplash abandon the ...

If Romeo were to be cut into little stars, as Juliet envisions in the iconic tragedy bearing her and her paramour’s names, we’d be looking right up at him in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s staging ...

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 ...

"They didn’t cry until we took them apart," said photographer Cassie Clayshulte. — -- The babies coincidentally named Romeo and Juliet, born just 18 hours apart in the same hospital via the same ...

If hearing a harpsichord with a Katy Perry or Backstreet Boys tune doesn’t bring a smile to your face, then you’re dead ...