LENOX — Actor Caitlin Rose has wanted to play Romeo in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet" since she first read the play in high school. She was assigned the role of Juliet in her ninth-grade ...

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 ...

As students in America reach high school, where they anxiously look forward to getting their driver’s license, enjoying their first encounter with “true love,” even dreaming about moving on to college ...

Caitlin Rose as Romeo, left, and Ashley McCauley Moore as Juliet, right, share a dance in Shakespeare & Company’s “Romeo and Juliet, ” running through Aug. 10. The pair previously played the ...

“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’ ...

In high school, a beloved, bookish teacher introduced me and the other students in her class to the classics of literature. Though her efforts to spark our interest went unrewarded, I read “The ...

For my first review of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Pulaski Academy was the perfect place for this performance, because who better to understand the saga ...

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.

Festival Ballet Albuquerque’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a story of love, tragedy and dance all blended into one unique performance that puts a spin on the classic play. On Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May ...