Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad play the star-crossed lovers in the Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, which takes a new perspective on Shakespeare's play by incorporating elements of ra…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of three Broadway productions for the 2014 Tony Awards. The shows discussed were First D…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met Oct. 24 to determine the eligibility of three Broadway productions for the 2014 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Th…
Aaron Posner has chosen a new tack for his production at the Folger Theatre in Washington, stressing the parallels between Renaissance Verona and contemporary America. He has succeeded in cr…
True, Condola Rashad has showbiz lineage — her mom and aunt are legendary theater and television actresses Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen and her father is former football star and s…
Somehow I missed the beginning of Aaron Posner's Romeo and Juliet. Not the famous beginning — "Two households, both alike in dignity," — but the real one, which must have happene…
"Shut . . . the . . . door!" Erin Weaver's seething Juliet exclaims through clenched jaw, as she and Eric Hissom's dazed Friar Lawrence hunker down to absorb the …
Shakespeare's iconic star-crossed lovers certainly need no introduction… but Folger Theatre's energetic interpretation of Romeo and Juliet may indeed herald some much-deserved praise. Dire…
As directed by Aaron Posner, Shakespeare's love tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (renamed Romeo & Juliet), should have been renamed simply Juliet, not because actors Michael Goldsmith (Romeo) a…
Returning to the stage after a long injury, the Royal Ballet's Lauren Cuthbertson is back in peak condition. She takes real risks in the giddy, swooning steps of Kenneth MacMillan's duets, s…
Since its premiere in 1965, Kenneth Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet has been a staple of the Royal Ballet's repertoire. Although this much loved piece has been performed countless times, prior …
Royal Opera House, London: Since its creation in 1965, the Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet has been a favourite with audiences, and the choice role for dancers, be it the leads of Romeo…
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."~Â Oscar Wilde, born October 16, 1854. Several exciting openings on Broadway — two different courtroom dramas on Broadway, one surprisin…
Has the art of romance been
totally lost? I ask because three
versions of what is arguably the most romantic play of all time, Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet (you know, the one where t…
Curio Theatre Company's Romeo and Juliet, presented in their lovely sanctuary space, is a concept piece with an agenda, which is all good, even if the concept is stretched thin in places. .
With every Cabinet reshuffle it's a while before new incumbents make their mark. And so it is in the world of dance. Big changes at the top " the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, and S…
No weapons at all, no balcony at all, no prologue, no scene of Lady Capulet begging for vengeance; no Finn Wittrock (the rising star who played Troilus so heroically in CSC's AGE OF IRON sea…
By Thea Rodgers. So the Romeo and Juliet that just premiered on Broadway"you know the one featuring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in the title roles"in some ways is the consummate modern …
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Orlando Bloom on the first Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet" in 36 years, his musical theater past and what it feels like to get entrance screams from fans.
Orlando Bloom on the first Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet in 36 years, his musical theater past and what it feels like to get entrance screams from fans.
by: JK Clarke When you have dueling productions of Romeo & Juliet in the same town (a mere 30 blocks from one another, no less), as we have now, one...The post My Kin…
Classic Stage Company's surrealistic version of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet opened on October 16, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Julian Cihi as the titular star-cross…
