Thursday, August 21, 2025

Viral Vocal Coach Cheryl Porter Makes Her Broadway Dreams Real in & Juliet by Kaitlin Stevens

Age: 52 Hometown: South Side of Chicago, Illinois Current Role: Cheryl Porter is making her Broadway debut as Angelique, a character inspired by the Nurse in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juli…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
Thursday, August 14, 2025

'Lion King' puppet designer helps put a spin on a classic in 'Romeo and Zooliet' by Jeremy Goodwin

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. A Shakespeare festival in St. Louis has found a way to make kid friendly as well with the help of a famous puppet designer.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36PM
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Lucky Tonight! review – Romeo and Juliet story told in the form of a pub quiz by Mark Fisher

Traverse, EdinburghAfreena Islam-Wright invites the audience into her life by interspersing her version of The Chase with tales from her British-Bangladeshi upbringing There is no shortage o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hot Mess. Earth and her fickle lover Humanity. by Jonathan Mandell

Will “Hot Mess” be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway – and the second Broadway musical, after “Six,” to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?  �…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Shaking up Shakespeare: A happy ending for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Jason Vondersmith

The pop-filled, frisky touring musical "& Juliet," which gives Juliet a new lease on life, plays Portland Aug. 5-10. Plus: Broadway in Portland's 2025-26 season.

SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:30PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Interview: Peter Schaufuss on Romeo and Juliet at Ashton Hall at Saint Stephens by Greg Stewart

Olivier Award-winning director Peter Schaufuss brings a landmark ballet production of Romeo and Juliet to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, celebrating 70 years since its original premiere The po…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 12:55PM
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Canadian Stage’s “Romeo and Juliet” Shines like a Dream in High Park due to the Trembling and Cracking of its Strong Leads by Ross

I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespeare and the classics. Not to get too off track, but a perfect example of this is Jamie …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Canadian Stage’s “Romeo and Juliet” Shines like a Dream in High Park due to the Trembling and Cracking of its Strong Leads by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Canadian Stage’s Romeo and Juliet in High Park By Ross I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespear…

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:40AM
Monday, July 21, 2025

Romeo and Juliet, But at the Zoo and With Animal Puppets by Diep Tran

St. Louis Shakespeare Festival has partnered with the St. Louis Zoo and the puppet designer for Lion King to create some star-crossed creatures.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Shakespeare Festival in Ukraine Goes On Despite War

According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to dem…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM

Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew by Kate Wyver

Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonCallum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Theatre Review: ‘Duel Reality’ by The 7 Fingers at Shakespeare Theatre Company (part of the DC International Theatre Festival) by Anne Valentino

“Duel Reality’s” tagline, “never was a story of more whoa,” a clever play on the final line of “Romeo and Juliet,” perfectly encapsulates the experience of watching The 7 Finge…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AM
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Evita review – Rachel Zegler is phenomenal but Jamie Lloyd’s rock show drowns out the story by Arifa Akbar

London PalladiumZegler excels as Eva Perón and the crowds outside are used to capture the hypnotic appeal of populism but the narrative takes a backseat in his staging of Andrew Lloyd Webbe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM
Friday, June 20, 2025

Rialto Chatter: Is Rachel Zegler-Led EVITA Headed for A 2027 Broadway Transfer?

With Jamie Lloyd’s radical revival of Evita currently lighting up the stage and sidewalk out the London Palladium, industry chatter is intensifying around a possible 2027 Broadway transfer…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PM
Monday, June 16, 2025

Romeo + Juliet by Vahni Kurra

This reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet featured a largely Asian cast as the feuding Montagues and Capulets in a supposedly “dystopian” setting shaped by “fate, class conflict, and a…

SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 04:00PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical by Peter Bradshaw

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast Director and former stage …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘Romeo + Juliet‘‘s Greg Nobile by Ruthie Fierberg

The Tony Award nomination marks the first ever for a production of “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway.

SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:00AM
Friday, May 9, 2025

Sierra Boggess and More to Lead Taylor Mac's PROSPEROUS FOOLS at TFANA

Theatre for a New Audience will present Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools (June 1–29), directed by Darko Tresnjak. Prosperous Fools, very loosely inspired by Moliere’s 17TH Century classic…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PM
Monday, May 5, 2025

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe - swagger and vivacity cohabit with death by Rachel Halliburton

Sean Holmes’ Western-style production brings a flamboyant start to the Globe's summer season Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Ro…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:32AM
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west by Arifa Akbar

Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona The warring Houses of Montague and C…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

“Romeo & Juliet”:  Feuding Families Forge Their Folly—at Lunatico by Lynne Stevens

Shakespeare Warns Us: Give Up Vengeance! by Lynne Stevens In Theatre Lunatico’s “Romeo and Juliet,” The Chorus (all the cast) take poses depicting scenes we will witness love, anger, d…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:34AM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Some of My Tony Thoughts on Upcoming Announcement by Frank Rizzo

Jeremy Jordan in “Floyd Collins” First, a big thanks to Adam Feldman for setting me straight (so to speak) on a few eligib…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:06PM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Review: Romeo and Juliet at Hackney Empire by Ke Meng

Review: Romeo and Juliet at Hackney Empire "the physical ensemble is incredible"

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:07PM
Thursday, April 17, 2025

2025 Tony Awards: How 'Romeo + Juliet' could break a surprising Shakespearean shutout

Romeo and Juliet Playbill. Playbill. Since premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most ...

SOURCE: Google at 11:32PM

Tommy Dorfman Discusses Going From Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' to 'Becoming Eve'

... trans. Tommy Dorfman Discusses Going From Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' to 'Becoming Eve'. 33 views · 4 minutes ago ...more. Playbill. 232K.

SOURCE: Google at 12:36PM

Tommy Dorfman Discusses Going From Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' to 'Becoming Eve' by Playbill

Tommy Dorfman has been having a busy season. She started out the year playing the dual roles of the Nurse and Tybalt in the Broadway revival of "Romeo + Juliet. She's now leading the cast of…

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Kit Connor, Jake Gyllenhaal, Denzel Washington could make Tonys history for ‘Othello’ and ‘Romeo + Juliet’ by David Buchanan

In all of Tony Awards history, there has never once been a season in which three performers have been nominated for Best Actor in a Play for Shakespearean roles. That could very well change …

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:27PM
Monday, April 14, 2025

John Proctor Is the Villain review – smart and snappy high school comedy by Jesse Hassenger

Booth Theatre, New York Stranger Things star Sadie Sink takes the lead in a wonderfully written new Broadway show about high schoolers grappling with hot potato issues in 2018 Soaring prices…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PM

Gabby Beans discusses the ‘oppressive and violent’ world of ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and starring opposite the ‘absolutely brilliant’ Kit Connor by David Buchanan

“Romeo and Juliet has featured in my life at these pivotal moments in a really funny way,” Gabby Beans smiles as she considers all the times she has crossed paths with one of Shakespeare…

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PM
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Hartford Stage’s latest ‘Romeo and Juliet’ features family, passion and sword fighting by Christopher Arnott

Melia Bensussen's production of "Romeo and Juliet," at Hartford Stage from April 17 through May 18, focuses on the theme of youth versus their parents.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

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