Good morning, and welcome to Broadway News’ Broadway Review by Brittani Samuel — our overview of reactions, recommendations and information tied to last night’s Broadway opening of “Romeo + Juliet.”
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The current Broadway revival of “Romeo + Juliet” relishes in the embarrassment of Gen Z riches: actors from streamer-topping series, music by hitmaker Jack Antonoff, the Charli XCX-led summer resurgence of electropop. In case there was any doubt, Verona IS brat.
These cultural references feel as essential to the experience as Shakespeare’s language itself, which, in the mouths of the hyper-energetic cast on the stage of the Circle in the Square Theatre, is illuminated with modern inflections. Director Sam Gold’s mission seems to be: keep the beauty of the Elizabethans’ verse, but scrub away the ugliness of their era.
