ORINDA -- The words of Shakespeare have stood the test of time, but imagine hearing these stories told in a new and different way. That's exactly what's happening in Orinda, in Cal Shakes' adaptation ...

Ok, Ok, I get it! Contemporizing Shakespeare’s plays can be interesting experiments, even if it’s to see how much you can get away with, and still retain the core and meaning of the play. I think it’s ...

In high school, a beloved, bookish teacher introduced me and the other students in her class to the classics of literature. Though her efforts to spark our interest went unrewarded, I read “The ...

It’s fun to watch a production of Romeo and Juliet in an auditorium full of middle- and high-school students, as I did when I attended Openstage Theatre’s final dress rehearsal in Fort Collins. The ...

More than 400 years after William Shakespeare first staged his tale of star-crossed lovers, “Romeo and Juliet” still vibrates with raw emotion. The current American Repertory Theater production ...

The city of Verona is about to be filled with pop music this summer with the release of Juliet & Romeo, and yes, you read those names in the right order. A new spin on William Shakespeare 's legendary ...

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About 15 years ago, Eliza O’Malley watched an opera in San Francisco on Romeo and Juliet that offered a new look at the ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

There are two ways of reading Romeo and Juliet, one of which is correct, in the sense that it is the way that Shakespeare meant it to be read and understood, and the other is incorrect, in the sense ...

Tapping into the twin markets of A) lovers of rom-coms and B) recovering English majors, “Rosaline” promotes a fleetingly mentioned “Romeo and Juliet” character front and center, then builds a very ...

Experience a ballet of Shakespeare’s classic from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan performed by dancers from The Royal Ballet set to a score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev filmed on atmospheric ...