You might think of the new Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet” as a teddy-bear picnic—with ecstasy as party favors. Actually the ecstasy is only a conjecture, but both the stage and ...
When Sam Gold’s new production of Romeo and Juliet, starring PYTs Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor, was announced back in April, the PR team came in hot. “THE YOUTH ARE F**KED,” shouted all the ...
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.
The set piece, not surprisingly, is the balcony scene, for which Juliet lies on a bed suspended from the rafters as an awkward and emotional Romeo, who spends most of the play in tank tops (the ...