Another playwright, Thomas Otway, lifted Romeo and Juliet’s plot and characters and transported them to Rome for his 1679 work, The History and Fall of Caius Marius.

The Berkshires-based company uses joy to highlight the youth stuck at the center of one of Shakespeare's most famous ...

It seems these days that Romeo and Juliet has become too popular for its own good. Whereas we exalt Shakespeare’s late tragedies of perturbed noble statesmen— Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear ...

Jimoh uses lines to express emotion rather than the other way around. That respect for text makes Romeo and Juliet’s scenes together as moving as they are detailed.

Toheeb Jimoh’s Romeo is a confident man, self-assured and energetic amongst his friends, Isis Hainsworth ’s Juliet brings out a softer, quieter and passionate side to him.