WAPAVA Presents: Excerpts from Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Romeo & Juliet (2008)Â ~ Public Viewing of Archived Production & Discussion ~ The Washington Area Performing Art…
UNEVEN PRODUCTION COMBINES CARNIVAL AND ROMANCE As part of Chicago's yearlong celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, Lyric Opera has mounted a production …
Ah, the importance of the costumes actors wears to set the scene for any stage production: the shapes, colors, textures. How the fabric flows, drapes, curves or hugs fast to an actor's frame…
The concept is simple, modest, even banal. The outcome is prodigious and surprising. One of Shakespeare's most celebrated classics, known by every generation, almost anywhere in the world, h…
By Emily Hardy
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has revealed the full cast for Romeo and Juliet, the fifth production in the inaugural Plays at the Garrick season. Joining Lily James as J…
RECOMMENDED Perhaps best known for the heroine's waltz song, which arrives in the first act and isn't quite equaled for sparkling melody thereafter, there is still much music to savor in thi…
Large dumpsters, the kind often seen at construction sites or behind restaurants, play a prominent role in Dámaso Rodriguez's kinetic modern-dress production of William Shakespeare's "Rom…
The first conclusion you might reach after watching Lyric Opera's production of "Romeo and Juliet" - the 1867 opera by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carre base…
Lyric Opera of Chicago continues its 61st season with Romeo and Juliet in a new-to-Chicago production created by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher Monday, February 22 through Saturda…
Dynamic director & choreography duo Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili have staged a dark, semi-steampunk but definitely steamy Romeo and Juliet. You may have seen Shakespeare’s Romeo a…
Lyric Opera of Chicago continues its 61st season with ROMEO AND JULIET in a new-to-Chicago production created by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher, tonight, February 22, through Satu…
Alas, poor Shakespeare. As it turns out, you don’t really need language to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet. In Synetic’s electric retelling of the star-crossed lovers’ t…