Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThis compelling outdoor production stills the rustling of sandwich wrappers by adapting perfectly to its environment, with food fights and fizzMeasuri…
Summer and Shakespeare go hand-in-hand and Prince George's Summer Shakespeare Festival's Romeo and Juliet is a departure from "traditional" productions of this iconic William Shakespeare pla…
Romeo and Juliet has a special place in our popular culture. BBC's 60 second Shakespeare has a hilarious front page, "Double Teen Death Horror"; "City's Top Clans Devastated after Botched Lo…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThese versatile actors move seamlessly from Toad Hall to tragedyIn theatre, what you see is seldom what you get. For instance, just now, what we see i…
Following the Spring presentation of Two Gentlemen of Verona, the Drilling Company continues to present free Shakespeare in New York's Bryant Park with with its second producti…
Castaways Repertory Theatre's presentation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will leave you believing in the premise of love at first sight, if ever you've doubted it. With standout performa…
The traveling San Francisco Shakespeare Festival production plays in Livermore, Cupertino, Redwood City and San Francisco
Mine is Yours theatre company staged R&J, giving the aggressive men's roles to women and the more vulnerable female roles to men in a well directed outing by Abby Craden.
Go, counsellor: Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. Juliet, Act III, scene v There are more relationships in Romeo and Juliet than just the one between Romeo and Juliet. We have rel…
A new play imagining what would happen if Romeo and Juliet had not died will feature in the Dukes' new season in
If you've never experienced the hyper-theatrical dance moves and dramatics of the astonishing Synetic Theater, may I suggest that now would be a very good time to start?
As Mercutio asks, "What curious eye doth quote deformities?," this reviewer must ask, What director's eye doth deform this tragedy into low comedy?
Star-Crossed Lovers, in Bondage By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The Jean Cocteau Repertory's abridged, frenzied production of Shakespeare's play makes a strong case for "Romeo and Juliet" as slapstick comedy.
Ask Welz Kauffman, president of the Ravinia Festival, where his idea for "The Romeo and Juliet Project" originated, and he enthusiastically confesses that it was Baz Luhrmann's recent film m…
Tue, October 15 thru Sun, December 1 @ Folger Theatre, presented by Folger Theatre -- The perfect poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy reveals the heart-breaking loss of "star-crossed" love. Hele…
Helmer Joe Regalbuto has abridged the Bard's "tale of woe" to a streamlined 95 minutes while casting the conflict of the Montagues and the Capulets as opposing blue state/red state political…