"This is called 'The Handmaid's Tale.' It's her time as a handmaid. And at the end, she's nobody's handmaid: She's Onjune," ...

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

Romeo and Juliet at the Globe this summer is an enjoyable night out and a reminder, if ever it was needed, of Shakespeare’s ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is ...

How do you “refresh” Romeo and Juliet ... land and Mercutio’s death, an important moment in tonal change, feels by the by. This seems easily fixed, with maybe a beat or two longer on the more somber ...

If some of the play’s darker ... and well-rounded Juliet, who is totally unsuited to the life that her parents have planned for her. Her giddiness in the balcony scene with Romeo is completely ...

Both Rawaed Asde’s exceptional Romeo and Shalam ... It’s a potent device for a play in which those who die young continue to exert such a force on the people they have left behind. Not least in the ...

A new version of Shakespeare's tale of Romeo and Juliet is coming ... serve the significance of each scene." Based on the true story that inspired Shakespeare's play, the film, from writer ...

When you broaden the scope the way this production does, William Shakespeare’s play is not as ... The balcony scene in Hartford Stage's "Romeo and Juliet," with Carmen Berkeley and Niall Cunningham.

People are making terrible mistakes in the play, leading in some cases to dangerous misunderstandings and death ... Niall Cunningham (Romeo) in a scene from "Romeo and Juliet." ...