In the intimate confines of The Lounge at Chatswood Concourse, Come You Spirits unveils a Romeo & Juliet that breathes with immediacy and intimacy. Stripped to its core, this production distills ...

It’s merely a fair Verona where we lay our scene. Romeo, played by Jamie Ward, is a Montague. Juliet is a Capulet, and she’s played by Clara Rugaard (who also played Juliet in the excellent ...

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a ... the movie unfolds in a Renaissance-mall Verona under siege from both Rome and the pope, with Prince Escalus (Rupert Graves ...

Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a ... the movie unfolds in a Renaissance-mall Verona under siege from both Rome and the pope, with Prince Escalus (Rupert Graves ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo ... Juliet emerges, her costumes transition from naive young girl at the ball to lighter, flowing robes for the love scenes and then to stark simplicity for the final ...

There are few stories as well known as “Romeo and Juliet,” when ... Lord Capulet and Alex Keiper and both Juliet’s nurse and Escalus, the prince of Verona who has had enough of the feud ...

Ultimately the peace that reigns at the end of Romeo and Juliet is much greater than the worldly and merely political peace that emerges in Verona. It is the knowledge imparted in the midst of the ...

With Romeo banished from Verona, Juliet enlists the help of Friar Laurence ... which all goes horribly wrong in the family tomb. That famous closing scene benefits from Byrd’s sepulchral ...

Gabby Beans plays Mercutio and others in Sam Gold’s production of Romeo and Juliet. (© Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) The Montagues and the Capulets are still causing civil unrest in Verona with ...

The attempt to transplant fair Verona to a 21st-century battleground state flies off the rails in its climax, when the discovery of Romeo and Juliet’s really-dead-this-time bodies is staged in ...

serving as Juliet’s balcony, the Capulets’ tomb, and the lovers’ deathbed at various points of the production. This set makes it clear that the play is not attempting to place Romeo and ...