Friday, December 5, 2025
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…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:36PMWednesday, November 19, 2025
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 T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:36PMA Daniel Sullivan-helmed Winter's Tale will also perform at Central Park's Delacorte Theater next summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe 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 re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
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 R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMOedipus director Robert Icke will helm the new revival at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Wade Schaaf's spinoff of "Romeo and Juliet" follows Lord and Lady Capulet, carrying on clandestine affairs of their own.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 2, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMMonday, October 6, 2025
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 03:42PMThe 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 02:00PMFriday, September 26, 2025
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 07:48PMBilingual 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 11:02AMThursday, September 25, 2025
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 08:02PMSunday, September 21, 2025
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 06:06AMWednesday, September 17, 2025
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 12:00AMFriday, September 12, 2025
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 12:36PMThursday, August 21, 2025
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 01:06PMThursday, August 14, 2025
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 10:36PMWednesday, August 13, 2025
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 04:06AMSaturday, August 9, 2025
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 05:25PMSunday, August 3, 2025
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 02:30PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
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 12:55PMThursday, July 24, 2025
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 12:03AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
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 07:40AMMonday, July 21, 2025
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 12:03PMWednesday, July 9, 2025
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 10:24AMRegent’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 08:02AMSunday, July 6, 2025
“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 11:43AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
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 08:12PMFriday, June 20, 2025
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 05:18PMMonday, June 16, 2025
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 04:00PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
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 08:32AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
The Tony Award nomination marks the first ever for a production of “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:00AMFriday, May 9, 2025
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 04:36PMMonday, May 5, 2025
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 05:32AMSunday, May 4, 2025
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 07:36AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
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 06:34AMMonday, April 28, 2025
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 
