You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas ...

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 ...

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler lead the nihilistic, nonsensical “Romeo + Juliet.” Nearby, Julianna Margulies and Peter ...

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 ...

But Gold's "Romeo + Juliet," while using Shakespeare's language, feels like it's designed to draw in tweens, teens and theater-averse adults who might not otherwise be interested in Shakespeare ...

Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Sam Gold, at Circle in the Square. (© Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) “Cute” isn’t a word we usually use to ...