We’re living in the Golden Age of Mashups, e.g., Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” (1885) turned into Percival Everett’s “James” (2024). Works by Jane Austen, A. Conan Doyle — anything out of copyright is ...

It's often said that there are no original ideas and that all content is merely recycled and repackaged. Stories, art, and music are all inspired by something that came before them. We can see this ...

“Go, girl, seek happy noches to happy dias.” The phrase obviously does not appear as such in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” but it’s emblematic of the many radical innovations in the misguided ...

William Shakespeare’s popular star-crossed couple intertwine in musical and romantic disharmony in a reductive refashioning of the iconic play, which makes fortune’s fool out of audiences. Still, just ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is Shakespeare’s actual ...

You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas than ...

This movie musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers is no “& Juliet” — that is, it’s no fun. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

There are two ways of reading Romeo and Juliet, one of which is correct, in the sense that it is the way that Shakespeare meant it to be read and understood, and the other is incorrect, in the sense ...