Romeo-Juliet News

Today Goodman Theatre announced a change in its upcoming 2009/2010 season lineup.

This loony, crazy quilt of a play by late gay playwright Jeffrey Hartgraves is set in a strange sort of limbo where a group of gay writers and icons - including Quentin Crisp , Tennessee Williams , Oscar Wilde , and Truman Capote - have taken up residence.

Jamie Kennedy is a busy man with few complaints. The wild comedic force that concocted television's "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment" now co-stars in the supernatural CBS series "Ghost Whisperer" with real-life girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt.

The Long Wharf Theatre will welcome Tony nominated actor-comedian John Leguizamo for two special performances in July.

DiCaprio with costar Kate Winslet at the premiere of 2008's Revolutionary Road No one but an avid Leonardo DiCaprio fan could know that the actor's dad, George , was once heavily involved in the underground comic scene.

Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy walk the red carpet during Burberry Day at The New York Palace Hotel on May 28, 2009 in New York City.

Hamming It Up: Catherine Hardwicke will direct, Ron Nyswaner will write, and Emile Hirsch will star in a contemporary "suspense thriller" version of Hamlet.

How cute is this? Amanda Seyfried and Gael Garcia Bernal are teaming up to play a couple in the Italy-set romantic movie Letters to Juliet .

A Macbeth neither fair nor foul Colm Feore as Macbeth with The Weird Sisters . There's Colm Feore, playing an emaciated, emotionless Macbeth in a show that opens with a bang, but ultimately runs cold J. Kelly Nestruck Thursday, Jun.

Antoni Cimolino as Romeo and Megan Follows as Juliet in the 1992 Stratford Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

A permanent spotlight shines on William Shakespeare's plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Though many of his works are set in the Elizabethan era or earlier, the works of the Bard, William Shakespeare are still relevant today.

Jesse Bradford's transition from child star and teen talent to mature actor was remarkably smooth by Hollywood standards - " the former Connecticut native endured no career embarrassments, no public humiliations, and retained the qualities that first drew audiences to him in his debut in Ulu Grosbard's drama, "Falling in Love" . Those qualities - " ...

Jamie Kennedy is best known for his breakthrough performance as Randy Meeks, the video store clerk well-versed in the conventions of scary movies, in Wes Craven's 1996 self-referential horror film "Scream" and its follow-up "Scream 2" . The Pennsylvania native headed west after high school and began performing stand-up comedy while supporting ...

GUY Pearce, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emily Blunt are among a star-studded cast of actors who will be gracing the red carpet at next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival, it was revealed yesterday.

Vanessa Redgrave and William Hurt are to star in Ralph Fiennes' film adaptation of Coriolanus, the Shakespearean classic about how power corrupt s . The Oscar-nominated actor will take the title role in the movie, which will mark his directorial debut.

The audience sprawled on blankets and a few foldout chairs. A proscenium of trees and the sinking sun together set the stage.

Zac Efron has been named one of the world's most influential people by a magazine -- and the teen idol is in good company alongside President Barack Obama, George Clooney , Bono and Oprah Winfrey .

My So-Called Life is the show that got away. It lasted just one season - 19 episodes - and while one would like to say it changed TV for ever, it didn't. If anything, its influence might be more evident in music: its unashamed teen self-regard, the wallowing in the intensity of one's feelings, seems to foreshadow the rise of emo.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival began its 2009 season Saturday afternoon with a well attended preview of "West Side Story" featuring Chilina Kennedy as Maria and Paul Nolan as Tony.