Broadway's newest production of "Romeo + Juliet" modernizes the century-old play with a sensual twist, to mostly success.

The women sing beautifully, but we barely know why they’re angry. In the end, Juliet and Romeo is a musical that strains to be meaningful but never earns its emotional crescendos.

Boston Ballet's Ji Young Chae as Juliet and Jeffrey Cirio as Romeo in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s "Roméo et Juliette." Rosalie O'Connor ...

That said, JULIET & ROMEO has some acceptability issues. For example, it has some Romantic elements, not the least of which is the emotional weakness that falling in love at first sight has regarding ...

I wanted to see more in Calum Callaghan’s Tybalt, yet struggled to get any kind of read on the character, and therefore justify Juliet’s hurt in his death.

Article written by guest writer, Emily Doherty “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”. The final line to one of the most famous love stories ever written of ...

Juliet & Romeo looks to change the direction of the Shakespearean classic. E. Kidd Bogart writes new pop music for the new musical.

‘Juliet & Romeo’ Review: The Classic Romance Is Reimagined as a Superfluous Pop Music Extravaganza William Shakespeare’s popular star-crossed couple intertwine in musical and romantic ...

A few scenes later, Juliet and Romeo musically muse, “Why do they always call it falling in love/ When the last thing you’d ever want to do is fall?” Shakespeare this ain’t.

Their deaths are shocking when they come, particularly the coldness with which Romeo shoots Tybalt, using his own gun. Jamie-Rose Monk is an amusing cockney Nurse with main character syndrome.

Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Romeo and Juliet that flings us into a vortex of frontier-town politics where men are men and bad girls ...

Home Reviews 'Romeo and Juliet' review — this fresh, energetic take on a classic is an excellent start to the summer theatre season 'Romeo and Juliet' review — this fresh, energetic take on a classic ...