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

Though more than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare's death, Romeo and Juliet still captures performers and audience alike. Riverside Theatre's rendition of "Romeo and Juliet" runs ...

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.

Romeo, played by Jamie Ward, is a Montague. Juliet is a Capulet, and she’s played by Clara Rugaard (who also played Juliet in the excellent yet short-lived TV drama “Still Starcross’d”).

‘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 ...

‘Juliet & Romeo’ stars Jamie Ward and Rebel Wilson talk injecting pop songs into retelling of beloved Shakespeare romance ...

Romeo and Juliet ’s teenage anguish is pretty funny, after all, as is the bravado of the young men, until the violence kicks in. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Its a given that “Romeo & Juliet” is a classic, but Melia Bensussens vision of Shakespeare’s love story brings the classic into the contemporary, and the dynamic staging and choreography and ...

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.

In the face of all this, the haste of Romeo and Juliet’s romance makes sense — life is short and uncertain — and feels like an act of defiance.

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 ...