Chicago Dance Review: ROMEO AND JULIET (The Joffrey Ballet at the Auditorium Theatre)
A POLITICAL PROKOFIEV BRINGS R & J CLOSER TO HOME It's been over two years since its Joffrey Ballet"and U.S.–premiere. The Chicago troupe's updated version of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet again re-roots the lovers in modernistic postwar Italy. Slick and lean, this literally black-and-white world (with a little maroon thrown in to suggest blood as much […]