Hartford Stage’s latest take on “Romeo and Juliet” is as focused on life as it is on the ill-fated lovers’ tragic deaths, according to director Melia Bensussen, who is also the theater’s ...

Aside from Connor’s Romeo and Zegler’s Juliet, there’s little sense of ... brings appropriate solemnity to the Capulet family crypt. The first thing that registers as the leads, both of ...

There’s a comic-relief scene at the end of Act IV in Romeo and Juliet that is nearly always cut. Juliet’s family has just discovered what they believe to be her dead body; as the musicians ...

Hartford Stage has done “Romeo and Juliet” twice before. Each time the play was directed by the Hartford Stage artistic director at that time. Mark Lamos did a breezy poetic version in 1995 ...