Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes ...

Unrequited love hurts, but you have to face it without clinging to it in order to move on. These 30 quotes will help you let go.

Or have someone call you a “pernicious and indubitate beggar” (Love’s Labor’s Lost, Act 4, Scene 1)? We sorted through our favorites of Shakespeare’s 38 plays and made a list for you of ...

Juliet, approximately 20 miles from each other. The two parties were advertised on social media with the “hosts” sharing the addresses as others drove “over an hour” to the gatherings that ...

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 ... slower moments in Act III, it takes a long time until we’re in the eerie crypt and a lot of superfluous distractions with Juliet’s friends ...

the shyness of the Balcony Scene is gone and Juliet’s desperation becomes frantic, flinging herself around Romeo’s neck, smothering him in kisses as he heads into exile. In moments of stillness, ...

This story was originally published on February 14, 2019, and has been updated to reflect Anora’s Oscar win. Every year, starting in late August and ending sometime around late February or early ...