What if Juliet didn’t kill herself? That is the question asked in “& Juliet”, coming to Philly’s Academy of Music.

Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a sleeping potion so that she appears to be dead. Romeo does not get Friar Lawrence’s message about the plan and thinks Juliet is dead. Romeo goes back to Verona and ...

Seeing "Romeo and Juliet" in Appalachian garb allows viewers, if they choose, to step back occasionally from the tragic romance and scrutinize a patriarchal society with a violent honor code.

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 ...

Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. In this scene, Juliet’s words seem to predict their fate at the end of the play. As Romeo climbs down from her room ...