Generally speaking it’s the updated versions of “Romeo & Juliet” that age badly, but these versions can still have value. “West Side Story” remains the best side story. Baz Luhrmann’s ...

There’s probably never been a time as ripe with “Romeo and Juliet” rip-offs as our contemporary era. Though it’s been 29 years since Baz Luhrmann’s modern, alternative-pop-scored ...

“Juliet & Romeo” lands well below the 1996 Baz Luhrmann version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes and just above 2011’s “Gnomeo & Juliet,” in which the characters are portrayed ...

Ever since Baz Luhrmann’s brilliant movie ... Both Rawaed Asde’s exceptional Romeo and Shalam’s self-knowing Juliet are very early in their careers, and both bring a compelling energy to these iconic ...

Those famous lines can mean only one thing, for this week's all-time classic we'll be looking at the Shakespeare adaptation 'Romeo + Juliet'. The film is directed by Baz Luhrmann, who updated the ...

Bensussen has not directed “Romeo and Juliet” before doing it at Hartford Stage. She has seen it done many times, of course, and has a fondness for the action-packed Baz Luhrmann movie version.

OK, director Sam Gold’s, nntz-nntz, party-hardy production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy is actually called “Romeo + Juliet,” swiping the youthful “+” from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 ...

The casting emphasizes an aspect of Romeo and Juliet which the text more or less ... The hyperpop framing is Gen Z by way of Baz Luhrmann, who—let’s face it—28 years ago put an indelible ...

Truly, though, nothing prepared me for Mr. Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet,” which opened on Broadway this week. Another auteur not known for subtlety, Baz Luhrmann ... thrust his crotch against the back of ...

the production styled its title Romeo + Juliet, apparently trying to rope in people who wept into their popcorn at the Baz Luhrmann movie while many brat-summer revelers were pre-utero.

This April, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers was cast as Juliet in a new West End adaptation of Romeo and Juliet ... Juliet must be white because she was played, in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 movie, by Clare Danes.