Chicago Tribune — I think my disappointment at "The Bardy Bunch," the expansive but mediocre new parody show at the Mercury Theater that imagines the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch as the Montagues and Capulets with other Shakespearean stuff stirred into the sil... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Montagues and Capulets may be feuding once again, but in Los Angeles Ballet's forthcoming production of "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare's tragic love story is a happier family affair. The company, led by husband-wife team Thordal Christensen and ... more info

Guardian Music — Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterGourlay’s pulverising Montagues and Capulets upstages ambitious attempts to soundtrack Shakespeare via the Turing test and gay cruisingThe original Manchester School of composers, centred around Harrison Birtwistle,... more info

Mercury News, California — Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell dazzle with bel canto song as Romeo and Giulietta in Vincenzo Bellini's 'The Capulets and the Montagues.' To hear these incredible singers in a hipster production, run -- don't walk -- to War Memorial Opera House. more info

Mercury News, California — Also: San Francisco Opera presents Bellini's 'The Capulets and the Montaguesand Jake Heggie's 'Moby-Dick.' more info

Guardian Music — She sounds like a human. And who would watch a love story between a human and a garden ornament? Don't answer thatThere's nothing Hollywood enjoys more than updating old Shakespeare plays for new audiences. Forbidden Planet, for example, was a sci-fi... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonDo children have shorter attention spans than they did a generation ago? The gentleman sitting beside me and my eight-year-old son at the Children's Prom robustly asserted that they did; he had been forced as a nine-year-old ... more info

Guardian Music — Aida | Unreported World | When Romeo Met Juliet | Fighting the Red BaronAida7.30pm, BBC3Part of the Opera On the BBC season, and possibly the most spectacular instalment, this is Graham Vick's production of Verdi's Aida, as performed on the outdoor f... more info

My Old Kentucky — I always find it interesting to hear what inspires my favorite music. The Love Language, from Raleigh, North Carolina got their start when their leader Stuart McLamb was booted from his prior band the Capulets for drunkenly ruining some gear on an of... more info

Express Newspapers — THE story of doomed teenage lovers is great material for all forms of artistic endeavour so it is no wonder that there are many dance versions of Shakespeare's play. This one, created by Christopher Gable and Massimo Moricone for NBT in 1991, is flee... more info