Boston has seen many versions of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet. The Kirov brought Leonid Lavrovsky’s 1940 Soviet ...

I’m a writer for The Upshot at The New York Times, mostly covering gender, family and young people. I find my beat so ...

I watched “Juliet & Romeo” in an empty theater on opening night, which felt fitting. It’s easy to pan writer and director Timothy Scott Bogart’s horrendous pop musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s ...

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile vomits on the guests, but a puppy nevertheless.

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile vomits on the guests, but a puppy nevertheless. This maladaption ...

Both Rawaed Asde’s exceptional Romeo and Shalam’s self-knowing Juliet are very early in their careers, and both bring a compelling energy to these iconic roles. Shalam powerfully shows how Juliet ...

A new version of Shakespeare's tale of Romeo and Juliet is coming to the big screen — and this time, it's a pop musical. Get your first listen of Juliet & Romeo's central love duet, "Beat the ...

Hartford Stage is offering a “Romeo & Juliet” that’s not about noble “houses,” or “fortunes” or even laser-focused on the two characters whose names are in the title. This is Romeo ...

Hartford Stage’s latest take on “Romeo and Juliet” is as focused on life as it is on the ill-fated lovers’ tragic deaths, according to director Melia Bensussen, who is also the theater’s ...

Everyone knows the story of “Romeo and Juliet”: two star-crossed lovers in fair Verona, deeply enthralled with one another — but torn apart by their family’s feud. While BU Shakespeare Society did not ...

But Ashton’s “Romeo and Juliet” – the first ballet interpretation of Shakespeare’s familiar story created in the West, without influence from the original 1940 Soviet version by Leonid ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet.