A new Folger Theatre production of “Romeo and Juliet” is set in a version of contemporary partisan Washington, D.C., where the Capulets are Republicans; the Montagues are Democrats ...

its tragic denouement hanging on Friar Lawrence’s inability to get word to poor Romeo that Juliet’s apparent death was but a drug-assisted hoax. For Folger Theatre’s season-opening update of ...

How successfully the Folger production deals with America's current political polarization is up for debate, the fact of our polarization is not. Romeo and Juliet runs two and a half hours with a ...

In Folger Theatre's ROMEO AND JULIET, passionately directed by Aaron Posner, Juliet too is such a heroine, and this tragic tale of young love lost becomes a much deeper story of human rights denied.

Folger Theatre’s season-opening production ... straddling Orlando Bloom in the current Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet.” Here, the designs by Laree Lentz neatly combine a touch ...

And even though Wordplay Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Enhanced Edition) isn't an app (it's an iBook ... by high-quality photos and other excellent learning supports. Folger Luminary Shakespeare's ...

Caldwell wrote in the official program for what some reviewers call Folger Shakespeare Library’s “partisan” take on the Bard’s classic tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.” In Caldwell’s ...

In Aaron Posner’s visceral but inconsistent production of Romeo and Juliet, currently playing at the Folger through December 1, one odd design choice becomes apparent the moment the show begins.

Romeo and Juliet, through Nov. 10 at Folger Theatre in Washington. 2 ½ hours including an intermission. folger.edu.