REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet, The Globe ★★★★
By Mark Ludmon Kramer and the cast of Romeo and Juliet deserve praise for taking a well-trod story and giving it a fresh, interesting and exciting new slant. This post REVIEW: Romeo And Juli…
By Mark Ludmon Kramer and the cast of Romeo and Juliet deserve praise for taking a well-trod story and giving it a fresh, interesting and exciting new slant. This post REVIEW: Romeo And Juli…
A production of Shakespeare's tragedy that's inventive, but exhausting
There's vigour and violence, comedy too, but Daniel Kramer's production disappoints"Everything in extremity". That announcement that the Capulet party is about to begin could just …
If there was controversy surrounding the use of light and sound at the Globe Theatre, the opening production of Emma Rice's second and final season as Artistic Director can only fuel the mul…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThis risible production butchers the language, turns Juliet into a squawking, pampered princess and makes everyone dance to the Village PeopleDaniel Kramer, direct…
BANG! and Whaam! Rosemary Waugh reviews the opening production in the Globe's Summer of Love. The post Review: Romeo and Juliet at The Globe appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
Daniel Kramer's production which reinterprets the star-crossed lovers as modern-day teenagers and includes Village People's 'YMCA' as the main number at the Capulets&apos…
Daniel Kramer directs the first show in the Globe's 2017 outdoor season
Death permeates Daniel Kramer's opener for Emma Rice's second " and last, before she steps down amid circumstances that might kindly be
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…
The latest press night parties, new shows in rehearsal, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures. This week’s highlights include the first
Fight director Kate Waters explains the way she approached staging the violence in Shakespeare's Globe's upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Globe is presenting an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" from April 22 through July 9, 2017.The play takes us back to old Verona, in Italy. Two families bear an ancient grudge, …
Ending its season on an emotional high, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre unveiled the North American premiere of Derek Deane's "Romeo and Juliet," a production that wore its considerable heart on i…
A self-described modern rep company, Merely Theatre is addressing Shakespeare's gender problem with 50/50 casting. Five male/female pairs each learn a set of characters in two plays, then o…
Unusually, actress Kirsty Bushell comes to Juliet later in a stellar career her work includes everything from the title role inSalisbury Playhouse's Hedda GablertoDisgraced at Bush Theatre a…
The promenade production is set, for the most part, in the backstage area of Ffwrnes, Carmarthenshire's newly designated circus-theatre centre. We begin, however, in the foyer, where televi…
It's been a season of milestones for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre: a new "Giselle" production, a blockbuster collaboration with Dance Theatre of Harlem and the 15th year for its signature "Nutc…
Shakespeare with smartphonesAmy Leach's energetic Romeo and Juliet is fast, furious and a little breathless, the setting transposed from Verona to a fairly grim contemporary Leeds. Think Wes…
Sherman Cymru, CardiffDespite fresh and lively performances, period language and modern behaviour clash to mixed effect"Fair Verona", Shakespeare's setting for the play is, in Kenny Miller's…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsKids film brawls on their mobile phones and flower memorials litter the set in an astonishing production that captures the play's sense of futilityWest Yorkshi…
By Jonathan Hall At the interval and the end- especially at the end- the audience, which included a large element of young people, erupted with a spontaneous cheering, whooping enthusiasm- i…
Hot-headed youth doesn't only take a bow at the start of Amy Leach's thrilling production when rival teen tribes break out in
What's in a name? That which we call a rose is just as bittersweet in miniature form. And so it is with Chicago Shakespeare's "Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet," now dashing through the s…