A new Folger Theatre production of “Romeo and Juliet” is set in a version of contemporary partisan Washington, D.C., where the Capulets are Republicans; the Montagues are Democrats ...

Romeo and Juliet, they fall in love ... So the society is all the rules and pressures, the culture, the religion, patriarchy, ideals, traditions, that affect the character, that affect who ...

Hartford Stage’s latest take on “Romeo and Juliet” is as focused on life as it is on the ill-fated lovers’ tragic deaths, according to director Melia Bensussen, who is also the theater’s ...