Lyric Opera of Chicago is seeking "street-fightin' men" for their production of Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Ian Judge, which opens November 20.
When a door opens to create new productions in a historic spaces, creative opportunities are revealed. Now, PICT Classic Theatere brings classic stories to two of Pittsburgh’s most storie…
Co-founded by Evgeny Amosov in 2001, The Russian National Ballet Theatre is one of several Russian ballet companies which regularly tour Australia offering productions of ballet classics. It…
Joseph Haj, artistic director of The Guthrie Theater, gives Twin Cities audiences a new and strange and richly tragic "Romeo & Juliet" without resorting to gimmicks. A triumph.
Creative inspiration strikes at random times, often when it's least expected. For the UK-based publishing house Bloomsbury, it struck in the office one day when a colleague's mother sent a p…
Young Vic, LondonThe actor gives an extraordinary performance, but even she cannot quite convey the turmoil of a woman who has suffered a strokeSometimes Juliet Stevenson looks like a parach…
Arthur Kopit's poetic drama about post-stroke aphasia and facing up to death astoundsNow look here, Giles Coren: immersion in a great play well acted can send you out of the theatre fee…
Young Vic, London Performing 360-degree loops, pummelled by voices and piecing together her shattered speech, Stevenson goes bravely to the limit in this high-concept showJuliet Stevenson mu…
See it for the balcony scene. Elm Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet" has some obvious and fairly understandable problems " a cast of wildly differing talents, design concepts that…
The dining scene of New York's Theater District is quickly becoming one of the best of the city, and few people know it better than the actors who call the neighborhood their second home. In…
St James Theatre, Wellington, August 16. Francesco Ventriglia was artistic director of Royal New Zealand Ballet when he proposed making a new Romeo and Juliet to replace Christopher Hampson'…
The Elm Shakespeare Company underwent the biggest change in its more than 20-year history last summer, when its founder James Andreassi passed on the artistic director reins to Rebecca Goodh…
Chicago Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, presented throughout the city at various parks free of charge, is both delightful and tragic in its portrayal of young love and rash decisions, Marti …
Over-choreographed and underwhelming, Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet has always suffered in comparison with versions by MacMillan, Cranko and even Ashton. Created
English National Ballet's revival of Rudolf Nureyev's production feels squeezed on this stage, and sidelines its heroine by focusing on the male relationships
At the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
