Instead of that small well-worn stone balcony in that courtyard in Verona, picture an extended well-worn cast-iron balcony in the Victoria Baths in Manchester. The young lovers have ample ro…
There’s a new theater company in town, and months before their first show (Romeo and Juliet done Bollywood style), they’re already making waves with a huge launch party in Septem…
Dances Patrelle Presents Romeo and Juliet
Off Off Broadway, The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
Reviewed by Jane Sato
BOTTOM LINE: This technically presentation of Romeo and Juliet shows …
Set in Temple Church, in the isolated medieval splendour of the area between Fleet Street and Embankment, Antic Disposition’s Romeo and Juliet is seen in the round, underneath the twel…
Sara Vickers, recently seen as Joan Thursday in ITV's drama Endeavour, plays Juliet in HOME's Romeo & Juliet at Victoria Baths. We find out why this more than a retread of the Bard's…
In the past year, I've been lucky to experience two productions of Romeo and Juliet that not only grasped the beauty and terror of the story, but also revered it. The first was Joffrey Balle…
It just wouldn't be summer without an alfresco Shakespearean performance. Settling down for a picnic, a tipple and the words of the Bard has become a staple of the theatrical calendar, and t…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe violence is hammy, as are some performances in Lavrovsky's seminal ballet, but Vladimir Shklyarov and Diana Vishneva are nearly flawless Continue reading...
The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with radiant young lovers in a creaky old production. In the leading roles, Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Shklyarov are stellar as well as star-cro…
... if you get thyself to the somewhat-rustic Forest Meadows Amphitheatre on the campus of Dominican University in San Rafael, you can rediscover for yourself why this love story (if a roman…
Oriental Club, London: The original Lord Chamberlain's Men founded in 1594 was one of the two leading acting company of the era, featuring performances in secondary roles by Shakespeare…
Why wait in line at the crack of dawn to see Shakespeare in the Park if you don’t have to?  The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s free production of Romeo N Juliet at the…
Could you say 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds' to a paying audience? As Shakespeare in Love hits the stage, our writer gets a masterclass in how to perform the bard's trickier li…
Plays, regardless of when they were written, take place in the eternal present. Updating a classic " for example, resetting Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in late-1920s Los Angeles, as Sha…
I DREAM’D A DREAM TO-NIGHT The National Ballet of Canada (TNBC), which presented its thrilling rendition of Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the Dorothy Chand…
