The clothing also marks a milestone for principal dancer Heather Ogden, who danced her first principal role as Juliet in 2001 ...

Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, destined for tragedy, had a secondary destiny: to be immortalized in ballet. That feeling ...

William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has been adapted countless times for stage and screen. This timeless, tragic love story with sword fights, a ball, and vibrant market scenes seems just made ...

A new papercraft-animated preview introduces New York City Ballet's company premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's ROMEO & JULIET, ...

Boston has seen many versions of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet. The Kirov brought Leonid Lavrovsky’s 1940 Soviet première staging to the Wang Center in 1992. Over the past 40 years, Boston ...

You can have it all — youth, wealth, beauty, even a perfectly nice fiance — and still feel trapped. This is the truth of “Romeo and Juliet.” The cry for freedom is a far more interesting theme than ...

Peter Schaufuss was just five years old when Frederick Ashton came to Copenhagen in 1954 to begin choreographing the first “Romeo and Juliet” ballet in the West for the Royal Danish Ballet. Both his ...

Festival Ballet Albuquerque’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a story of love, tragedy and dance all blended into one unique performance that puts a spin on the classic play. On Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May ...

"Romeo and Juliet" may have originated as a play, but for ballet fans, Shakespeare's romantic tragedy has become synonymous with a passionate score by Sergei Prokofiev, first adapted in 1955 by ...

Houston Ballet will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wortham Theater Center with a revival of the production that inaugurated the facility. Houston Ballet will revive its lavish production of Romeo ...

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