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 Shakespeare’s actual ...

Few stories are as renowned as William Shakespeare’s classic tragic love story Romeo and Juliet, but that famous story is being flipped on its head with the old west-themed fantasy adventure graphic ...

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. A puppy that chews the furniture, soils the rugs and projectile vomits on the guests, but a puppy nevertheless. This maladaption ...

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Everyone recognizes these iconic words from William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” a classic of ninth grade English. This past Saturday, Diane Paulus’ ...

"It's cool," Allie Babich said, "to be working on an old play but a new play at the same time." The actor has a surprising role in Skylight Music Theatre's world-premiere production of "Juliet and ...

Christina Lewis (@By_Christina) is a Daily Signal contributor and a former member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. “I was at a dinner party recently, and one of the guests ...

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company began its season in July with a cabaret-style revue called “Shake It Up.” Now, roughly halfway through the summer, it’s shaking things up again — this time not always in ...

A showdown awaits this summer as the Globe Theatre transforms into the dangerous world of the Wild West for an exciting new production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. An ancient grudge between two ...

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How do you “refresh” Romeo and Juliet, a play so completely subsumed within contemporary culture that much of the script now sounds cliché? According to director Sean Holmes, you make it a Western.