Monday, October 6, 2025

Stage and Screen Veteran John Woodvine Passes Away at 96

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that John Woodvine, a longtime star of the stage and screen, has passed away at the age of 96. In a career that spanned six decades, the performer appeare…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents John Adams’s The Rock You Stand On, Bartók, and Prokofiev by Peter Burwasser

The Philadelphia Orchestra and visiting conductor Marin Alsop premiered John Adams’s The Rock You Stand On, in a program including Bartók’s last concerto and selections of Prokofiev’s…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:00PM
Friday, September 26, 2025

LA Opera’s “West Side Story” – reviewed by Pauline Adamek

Possibly the greatest musical ever created, West Side Story – a modern version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set on the mean streets of New York during the turbulent fifties – is n…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PM

‘The language adds a whole new level’: Welsh-English version of Romeo and Juliet heads for the Globe by Steven Morris

Bilingual production by Theatr Cymru is expected to be first time Welsh will be heard at South Bank venue Grappling with the subtleties of Shakespeare’s poetry and prose has proved a chal…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: Huzzah! by The Old Globe

Book, music, and lyric writers Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe join The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Huzzah!. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opp…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:02PM
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Romeo and Juliet review – turbocharged tragedy has a dream duo at its heart by Chris Wiegand

Everyman theatre, LiverpoolEllie Hurt directs a dynamic production that boasts sensational lead performances by Zoe West and Alicia Forde Romeo and Juliet is a play that lives or dies by the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

SUMMER IMPRESSIONS: The Hong Kong Ballet at Lincoln Center & Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Company at Kaatsbaan by The Dance Enthusiast

The Butterfly Lovers, a spectacular evening-length production that Hong Kong Ballet presented...is based on an ancient Chinese legend sometimes equated with "Romeo and Juliet." The Bill T. …

SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM
Friday, September 12, 2025

‘I haven’t even googled how to write a play!’: Nima Taleghani bringing rap to the National Theatre by Miriam Gillinson

The Heartstopper star’s exhilarating reboot of Euripides is the first debut play to grace the hallowed Olivier stage – but it nearly didn’t happen. ‘Its not in my bones,’ he says N…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM
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: The Arts Desk 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

All that Chat