It takes a true artist to be thematically serious while humorously cynical and off-putting. Because of this, parodies are incredibly difficult to pull off. The University of Iowa’s theatre department ...
Way before ‘emo’ was a thing, William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet saw two star-cross’d teens bring down a plague on both their houses, ‘these violent delights’ leading them both to ...
When Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, a hyper-stylized and modern take on William Shakespeare’s tragic play about star-crossed lovers and forbidden love, came out, I was obsessed with it. Before I even ...