Romeo and Juliet, dir. Scott Wentworth, Stratford Festival at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 2017 Reviewed by Tracy O’Brien Director Scott Wentworth writes in the playbill for the Stratford Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, “When we look at the hate speech around us today, we see our world hasn’t progressed far beyond the Capulets and the Montagues.” Perhaps […]
Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption, Stratford Festival, Dir. Weyni Mengesha and Mitchell Cushman, Assoc. Dir. Graham Abbey, at Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. June 22, 2016 Reviewed by Regina Buccola Within a three-month span this summer I will have seen the first part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s epic march through […]