Christopher Weyant is a cartoonist and illustrator. Weyant was named a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard for the Class ...

The hundreds of adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” feel like attempts to keep everyone alive forever — even those who must die ...

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers and their bitterly, antagonistic families, have arrived in Northern Ballet’s superb revival of their 1991 production, conceived and directed by the ...

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“If all else fail,” Juliet reasons, “myself have power to die.” How about some chamomile and you can email Romeo in the morning? If the poor thing weren’t so doomed, she may have gleaned ...

NEW YORK — In the promotional run-up to director Sam Gold’s production of “Romeo + Juliet,” much effort was made to promote the intensity of its young stars’ feelings, justifying the ...

The Australian group’s third album Cartoon Darkness kicks into high gear with growling distortion, torn asunder with some snarling riffage on opener “Jerkin’.” Vocalist Amy Taylor is out ...

OK, director Sam Gold’s, nntz-nntz, party-hardy production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy is actually called “Romeo + Juliet,” swiping the youthful “+” from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 ...

Senior Editor and Writer A few blocks from the new, extremely loud and ultimately tiresome Romeo + Juliet on Broadway—the word “and” clearly now deemed unacceptably square and boring (Circle ...

NEW YORK − Brat summer is over, so brace yourself for Bard fall. “Romeo + Juliet,” which opened Oct. 24 at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, is an in-your-face, relentlessly Gen Z ...

The set piece, not surprisingly, is the balcony scene, for which Juliet lies on a bed suspended from the rafters as an awkward and emotional Romeo, who spends most of the play in tank tops (the ...