Romeo (Cole Taylor) shares a tender moment with Juliet (Caro ... stage to speak the prologue, still delivered within the safe confines of the literary form familiar to Shakespeare and ...

Enver Chakartash’s costumes are inventive, too: Romeo wears a gold-sequined outfit to the Capulet’s party where he sees Juliet for the first time, and it sparkles in Isabella Byrd’s flashing lights.

Romeo as meathead and Juliet as nerd girl with an overactive imagination. Of course, in Shakespeare everybody is hyper-poetic when they need to be, but as the tragedy runs its course, Romeo tends ...