These images are taken from a 2002 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The day after the Capulet party, Romeo asks Friar Lawrence to marry him ...

In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb.

The greatest love story ever told? No. The tale of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Listen instead to the Friar: Love moderately, not violently. We explain what that looks like.

When Romeo convinces Friar Lawrence to marry him to Juliet, he tells the priest that he is unconcerned with any possible sorrow. It cannot compare to the joy “that one short minute gives me in ...

Juliet is only 13; Romeo only a few years her elder. Their love is so all-consuming that they are willing to forsake everything—their families, their futures, even their own lives—for each ...

We are told by Friar Lawrence that “violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo becomes possessed by his possession of Juliet, as she becomes possessed by her possession of him.

A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that involves AI and Ron DeSantis. Folger Theatre’s new production incorporates smartphones and partisanship, with mixed results.

FRIAR LAURENCE, THE MAN WHO KILLED ROMEO AND JULIET, Second City, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Writer-director Ron West’s work with Second City was always sharp but not necessarily ...