​A.R.T. is now presenting Wonder, a new musical about change, identity, and what it means to belong. Featuring a driving, pop-inspired score by the GRAMMY Award–winning duo A Great Big World and a book by M…

​A.R.T. is presenting Wonder, a new musical about change, identity, and what it means to belong. Featuring a driving, pop-inspired score by the GRAMMY Award–winning duo A Great Big World and a book by MacAr…

A.R.T. is presenting Wonder, a new musical about change, identity, and what it means to belong. Featuring a driving, pop-inspired score by the GRAMMY Award–winning duo A Great Big World and a book by MacArthu…

What a pair of star-crossed lovers. ✨ This 1992 production of Romeo and Juliet marked Megan Follows's first season at the Festival, hot off the success of her breakthrough role in the Anne of Green Gables min…

ANNOUNCING: SHAKESPEARE FOR THE CITY 2026 — presented by Citizens! ROMEO AND JULIET. THE WINTER’S TALE. AS YOU LIKE IT. PUBLIC WORKS. PUBLIC FORUM. At the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater, Free Shakesp…

A Daniel Sullivan-helmed Winter's Tale will also perform at Central Park's Delacorte Theater next summer.

The Public Theater has revealed its 2026 Shakespeare for the City season, including Free Shakespeare in the Park’s Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale and Public Works at the newly revitalized Delacorte …

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Romeo and Juliet, opp…

Oedipus director Robert Icke will helm the new revival at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Wade Schaaf's spinoff of "Romeo and Juliet" follows Lord and Lady Capulet, carrying on clandestine affairs of their own.

Casa Mañana kicks off its 2025-26 Broadway Season with West Side Story, featuring the likes of Alex Benoit, Addie Morales, and more. One of the most beloved musicals of all time, West Side Story reimagines the…

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 appeared in more than 70 pr…

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 Romeo and Juliet. P…

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 now playing at the Do…

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 challenge for many a the…

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 opportunity to closely …

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 speed of its execut…

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. Jones/Arnie Zane Com…

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 Nima Taleghani seems …

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 Juliet, in the musical &…

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.

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 of one-person plays a…

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?   The idiosyncratic r…

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.

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 post Edinburgh Fringe …

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 Lloyd’s magnificen…

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 Shakespeare and the classics. …

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

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 demand the release of U…

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 their opposing place…

“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 Fingers’ take on one of…

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 Webber and Tim Rice’s m…

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. According to Baz B…

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 astrology,” accordi…

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 actor Timothy Scott …

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

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 Le Bourgeois gentil…

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 Romeo and Juliet that …

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 Capulet are resurrect…

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, dance, play. They des…

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

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

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

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

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 "Becoming Eve" Off-…

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 this year, as both O…

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 be damned, Broadway…

“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's most famous trage…

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.

In an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kit Connor recalled a performance during the recent production of Romeo and Juliet when one of his stunts almost went awry. Watch the interview!

"DOOM revolves around William Shakespeare’s 16th-century tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The subtitle, House of Hope, refers to the houses of Montague and Capulet. However, in DOOM’s dystopian world, the play tra…

playbill.com/artic… ... Can't be possible, she's a curse!! ... The Press Goblin essentially told a federal judge to “eat shit” because the US felonious ...

Hard to imagine that the Bard who wrote this fun and foolish play also penned Hamlet, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. The post A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Quintessence): The Bard’s crazy side appeared first o…

SHO ME: Joey Fatone in & Juliet! The *NSYNC star recently said a quick 'Bye Bye Bye' to Broadway, but don't worry - just like Romeo, he won't be gone for long. Get your tickets now for his return to @andjuli…

Shakespeare's Globe announce the cast for Romeo and Juliet, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes

Yes, it’s a stereotype, but do mothers and their gay sons really do have a special relationship like no other? Matt Doyle believes so. The Tony Award-winning actor from the gender-switching product ion of the…

In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty’s interpretation, which puts onst…

Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, LondonMatthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi enchant as the Royal Ballet celebrates 60 years of Kenneth MacMillan’s classic. And into the void with Wayne McGregor With its 537th …

Belgrade theatre, CoventryThere are ideas aplenty in this high-concept musical retelling of Shakespeare, but it gets off to a bumpy start This telling of the age-old tragedy begins with modern-day fractiousness…

Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . .  Parodies require broad knowledge of their source materials. So, not all works are good sources. They need to be well-established and well-known. What better sources than …

This April, Hackney Empire will host a bold new production of Romeo and Juliet, blending Shakespeare’s original text with rap, R&B, and spoken word

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production Thematic merchandise is common at Shakespeare productions: V…

Join @bwaySHO for an inside look of Romeo + Juliet's Opening night on Broadway starring Kit Connor + Rachel Zegler with this new episode of SHO ME! See you at the SHO! Filmed by #bwaySHO and Ashley Lavalle E…

Sadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, LondonContenders for two new dance prizes include Kyle Abraham’s buoyant celebration of Black life and an intriguing twist on Georgian folk dance. Elsewhere, a township spin…

Royal Opera House, LondonMthuthuzeli November expertly fuses ballet, contemporary and South African dance in Fools. Plus five minutes of fun from Kristen McNally and Rudi van Dantzig’s Four Last Songs You can…

The 2025 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals offers musicals-in-progress, cabaret performances, panel discussions and more at Terris Theatre.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Olivia Hussey, best known for her role in the 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has passed away at age 73 from breast cancer.

Initial casting has been announced for the 2025 world premiere of ROMEO AND JULIET, an innovative new version of Shakespeare’s play, originally scored with rap and R&B, opening at the Belgrade Theatre

Tony-nominated actor Gabby Beans discusses playing both Mercutio and Friar Lawrence in Broadway's groundbreaking Romeo & Juliet alongside Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler - exploring how this revolutionary producti…

5 Classic Musicals of the 1950s  A few Fridays ago, we talked about 5 classic plays that have stood the test of time and remain as entertaining and relevant as ever. When I tried to make a list of just 5 cla…

There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (“My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun") as a …

Born in St Petersburg in 1985, Shklyarov joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2003 and became its principal dancer – the highest-ranking position in a ballet company – in 2011. During his 20-year career, Shklyar…

Is there anyone who doesn’t know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the young star-crossed lovers? The challenge for a director, then, is how to retell the story to appeal to a younger audience. Director Sam Gold…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

By: Samuel L. Leiter November 5, 2024: There was a time, not that long ago, when productions of Romeo and Juliet,Shakespeare’s tale of two passionate, star-crossed, young lovers, was conventionally staged t…

Adolescence, passion, tragedy—the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet is brimming with all the elements of youthful exuberance and defiance. Rising stars Amina Edris and Duke Kim gloriously inhabit the title rol…