And, as a little boy, I drew a pretty accurate Starship Enterprise in the sky above the Caribbean Sea on the dust jacket of my mother’s first edition of her copy of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and ...

Naghdi’s Juliet is already so absolute in her certainty that she’s having Romeo that there’s no sense from her of revelatory wonder in the balcony pas de deux. She’s headstrong ...

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 ...

With Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan took a middle-ranking Shakespeare play and alchemised it into one of the 20th century’s most astonishingly stirring works of art.Certainly, seeing it 60 ...

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 ...

What an opportunity for a young dancer! Naghdi’s Juliet has always been affecting – I saw her first dance the role in a 2015 general rehearsal where she was partnered by Matthew Ball, her ...

There are some very good actors in the cast giving very good performances. Kyle Ndukuba (Romeo) and Mia Khan (Juliet) are likeable and energetic, but the central trio of older women, Yasmin Wilde as ...

‘Romeo and Juliet’ is one of my favorites because it seamlessly combines all of those qualities. “This Thanksgiving, I dedicate this song to star-crossed lovers around the country kept apart ...