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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the night my childhood best friend and I attended “Romeo and Juliet” at The Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, we were brimming with excitement and nostalgia. As we walked through the ...

According to the Folger Shakespeare Library, folger.edu, In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families ...