Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is Shakespeare’s actual ...

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is magnificent in Jamie Lloyd’s overly subdued, minimalist take on Shakespeare’s doomed romance, playing in London’s West End. By Demetrios Matheou There’s been a lot of heat ...

In high school, a beloved, bookish teacher introduced me and the other students in her class to the classics of literature. Though her efforts to spark our interest went unrewarded, I read “The ...

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is popular. By some accounts, it’s the second-most-performed Shakespeare play in the United States, and to many Americans who are used to high school English class, it ...

Young stars perfectly encapsulate the uncompromising nature of first love in Robert Icke’s production Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle when a star from a hit TV ...

In Robert Icke’s take on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” the play’s star-crossed lovers — played here by “Hamnet” breakout Noah Jupe and “Stranger Things” star Sadie Sink — are running against ...

Hartford Stage is offering a “Romeo & Juliet” that’s not about noble “houses,” or “fortunes” or even laser-focused on the two characters whose names are in the title. This is Romeo and Juliet and ...

Toheeb Jimoh, Emmy-nominated for “Ted Lasso,” takes on Romeo in a riveting production from the British director Rebecca Frecknall. By Matt Wolf Reporting from London “Is love a tender thing?” Romeo ...

When Sam Gold’s new production of Romeo and Juliet, starring PYTs Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor, was announced back in April, the PR team came in hot. “THE YOUTH ARE F**KED,” shouted all the marketing ...

On the night before an early morning at TODAY, Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor died. The actors lay prone onstage at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York, bleeding out in front of a captive, ...

The perfect remedy for a cold New York City day is something hot. For an audience of mainly college-aged women in Circle in the Square, a circular theater with audience members all around, that ...