Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.

More age credible was the 1996 “Romeo ... a version of “Romeo and Juliet” in Central Park in 2007, actress Lauren Ambrose was 29 and a then-unknown Oscar Isaac was 27. A bit of poetry ...

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"? Well, someone forgot to carbon-copy the leads in British director Tim Carroll's "original practices" production, which opened ...