romeo and juliet

Rupert Goold’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the second production in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory season at the Park Avenue Armory, utterly fails to stir the heart.

The Bard is rolling in his grave -- and according to novelist Anne Fortier, that's a good thing. Her retelling of Romeo and Juliet is a contemporary fairy tale mixing medieval and modern mystery -- a time-shifting maze that unravels the unknown story of the feuding families in fair Verona.

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In a new off-Broadway production, Shakespeare's classic is retold through the fuzzy recollections of people who slept through English class.

The play is more about how we remember — or thought we remembered — the greatest love story of all time, and less about who said what on that balcony or whatever.

An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic.

Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction...

Composer and author Daniel Felsenfeld takes the reader on a tour of some of the "Little Russian's" most beloved works, including The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture, Romeo and Juliet, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6, the Serenade for Strings, and his Violin...

Two of the Russian master's most popular compositions in an attractive and modestly priced reprint of authoritative Russian versions: Overture, his first masterpiece; Capriccio, an evocative portrait of Mediterranean life and scenery. New translation of...