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A pyre for their desire Matthew Bourne’s “Romeo + Juliet” by Bondo Wyszpolski Take note of the title. Shakespeare’s name is nowhere to be found…

James Urbaniak stars as an Abstract Expressionist painter with a double life in the world premiere of John Ross Bowie's 'Brushstroke' at the Odyssey Theatre.

Architect William Pereira's 1973 Times Mirror building in downtown L.A. makes a special appearance in Netflix's 'Griselda' as a signifier of cocaine excess.

A radical reworking of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" by acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne gets its North American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.

A new take on the classic tragedy, 'Romeo + Juliet,' makes a glorious North American premiere.

'The Settlers' and 'White on White' explore the role of film and photography in a brutal era of South American history.

If you take “Romeo and Juliet,” place it in a nondescript institution and inject it with the vitality of youth, you’ll get Matthew Bourne’s revival.

Local talent shone through during the opening of Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet as it took to the stage at HM Theatre in Aberdeen.

In this Romeo and Juliet, we do not find two feuding families, but a clinic where gender is segregated, and sexuality policed. What makes Bourne’s critique of such institutional control astute is the inclusion of the multiple idiosyncrasies that underpin societal attempts to govern sex.

The young lives of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers were tragically blighted by the warring rivalries of their powerful families. Fast forward to…