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…
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
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…
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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…
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…
"Romeo And Juliet," choreographed by Fabrizio Monteverde will be staged at the Teatro Carcano, Milan, from March 23 through March 26, 2017. Set against the backdrop of south Italy, the …
Henrik Eger: You left quite an impression portraying the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (2009) and Peter in Peter and the Starcatcher (2016) " both at the Walnut Street Theatre. Seen from the pers…
"Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean…." Delaware County's Media…
Shakespeare's Globe is has announced casting for Romeo and Juliet directed by Daniel Kramer, and Twelfth Night directed by Emma Rice. Emma's 2017 summer season, the Summer of Love, marks the…