William Shakespeare is, without a doubt, the most famous writer in English history. The famous playwright’s works have been adapted time and time again into films and TV shows. Over 400 years ...

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers and their bitterly, antagonistic families, have arrived in Northern Ballet’s superb revival of their 1991 production, conceived and directed by the ...

delivers more affecting insight than the garbled Shakespeare a few blocks over. There is much on the surface of director Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” aimed at sweetening the consumption of a ...

NEW YORK — In the promotional run-up to director Sam Gold’s production of “Romeo + Juliet,” much effort was made to promote the intensity of its young stars’ feelings, justifying the ...

OK, director Sam Gold’s, nntz-nntz, party-hardy production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy is actually called “Romeo + Juliet,” swiping ... and gets handed the prologue.

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 ...

Kit Connor of “Heartstopper” and Rachel Zegler are appealing as the young lovers, but also lost in an aggressively buzzy production that neglects the feast of Shakespeare’s words and characters.

“Romeo + Juliet,” which ... voice is perfectly matched to Shakespeare’s prose. Zegler, too, brings a shrewd wit and openheartedness that makes her Juliet irresistible. Her take on the ...

Shakespeare or West Side ... 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 ...

That lip-lock in particular happens during Shakespeare's famed balcony scene, where Romeo declares his love for Juliet from the garden below and the two decide to marry. Matthew Murphy and Evan ...

But Shakespeare’s greatest plays are timeless ... Aside from Connor’s Romeo and Zegler’s Juliet, there’s little sense of Gold coaxing his ensemble — almost all of them double-cast ...