Emmy Award winner Kit Connor and Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Zegler will come to Broadway this fall in Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold with mu…
Heartstopper's Kit Connor and West Side Story's Rachel Zegler will star in the new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet this fall, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Go…
Following yesterday's social media tease, BroadwayWorld can confirm Rachel Zegler (Steven Spielberg's West Side Story) and Kit Connor (Netflix's Heartstopper) will star as Juliet and Rome…
"West Side Story" star Rachel Zegler and "Heartstopper" breakout Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in "Romeo+ Juliet," a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's classic that will ope…
Sadler's Wells, LondonSet in an asylum, the choreographer's bleak yet passionate adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic romance triumphs in a newly honed revival
The choreographer Matthew Bourne…
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard's works are mounted across the world in amplitude (and many attend), rarely does a community-…
Webre went for acrobatics and precision rather than passion. Perhaps, the Chinese Communist regime frowns upon openly sexual expression in dance. Perhaps Webre can't summon anything …
Birmingham HippodromeMagical movement is weighed down by plot as the Rosie Kay Dance Company graft Shakespeare on to modern Midlands life
I worry about the dominance of Shakespeare's Romeo a…
Birmingham HippodromeTaking elements of contemporary, hip-hop, classical Indian and streetdance, Rosie Kay's version of Shakespeare has a clamour of activity and ideas
This autumn brings a …
BroadwayHD today announced they will be bringing four contemporary and thrilling productions by award-winning dance-theatre company New Adventures and acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne …
The director Simon Godwin has offered up the most impassioned version of this play imaginable, its often unwieldy length here filleted to 90-minutes as hurtling and relentless as the very jo…
Hester Lees-Jeffries explores what exactly makes Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare so striking (not least Catherine Martin's design). " David Jays
From the archives!
Here is my interview with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, first published in November 1996.
What was your motivation to jump from a musical to Shakespeare?
Baz Luhrmann…
With in-person theatre out of commission for the foreseeable future, many performers from Broadway and beyond are sharing their talents online. Below are performances you can watch toda…
Secret Cinema PresentsWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet, its latest immersive film experience which brings to lifeBaz Luhrmann's adaptation of the classic Shakespearean love tragedy Romeo …
It's that time of year again. Commuters watch and wonder, as waves of people cram onto their rush hour trains. You can spot them a mile off, thanks to their lightsabers, corsets, and this ye…