At first blush, adding Appalachian-flavored music and dress to Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare’s flowery and famous language – well, it sounds like an anachronistic conflict. Until you see ...

Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Paradise Square, Design Award (Obie Awards) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for My Fair ...

After a five-year wait due to COVID, The Sarasota Ballet presents a belated company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ...

Directed by Sam Gold and featuring music by Jack Antonoff, “Romeo + Juliet” bowed last fall and closed on February 16. Rachel ...

Sarasota Ballet presents the company premiere of Frederick Ashton’s 1955 ‘Romeo & Juliet’ which connects three generations of Schaufuss dancers ...

Britain. It saw the abolition of the death penalty and the arrival of the Race Relations Act. It was the year of the Mary Quant miniskirt and “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones. While cinema-goers ...

The last time Ashton’s “Romeo and Juliet” was seen in the U.S. was in 2016, when it was performed by the Los Angeles Ballet.

Most modern adaptations of William Shakespeare don’t include the playwright as a character, but some paint him to be an arrogant jerk to the Backstreet Boys’ tune “Larger Than Life.” That’s just one ...

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why ...

This ballet is old enough to nab a Freedom Pass, but refuses to act its age. Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1965, but 60 years on the wrenching tragedy, stippled with detail ...

Sixty years old, and still fresh: in its anniversary year, The Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet is ardently danced. With its feuding families and star-crossed lovers, the story ...

Seeing "Romeo and Juliet" in Appalachian garb allows viewers, if they choose, to step back occasionally from the tragic romance and scrutinize a patriarchal society with a violent honor code.