The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and ...

Its a given that “Romeo & Juliet” is a classic, but Melia Bensussens vision of Shakespeare’s love story brings the classic ...

The chemistry between Asde’s Romeo and Lola Shalam ’s Juliet is brilliant in that they’re just two horny teenagers who happen to have landed on each other as targets. The wooing conversation of saints ...

Holsters, Stetsons and bluegrass music bring a distinctive flavour to this Wild West riff on Romeo and Juliet that flings us ...

The balcony scene is played partly for laughs, with Juliet pushed on a mobile platform through the crowd, urging the ushers to get her closer to Romeo. But there’s a sweetness to the encounter ...

Romeo and Juliet’s teenage ... she is trundled to the stage on a mobile balcony is something to behold. Older classical actresses used to dismiss Juliet as a weak, reactive part like Desdemona ...

Jamie-Rose Monk is a formidably funny and deftly poignant presence as Juliet’s true mother ... Her giddiness in the balcony scene with Romeo is completely believable and irresistibly sweet.

Juliet & Romeo is a superficial retelling, with a musical format that doesn't have the amazing production or songs to make up ...

The Globe’s season opener is a Wild West ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that makes up in originality what it loses in actual tragedy ...

This all peaks with what would normally be a ball scene, now transposed to a barn ... comparison to the Montague’s rag-tag cowboy gang. Juliet’s age of just thirteen is made a key part of ...