Seeing "Romeo and Juliet" in Appalachian garb allows viewers, if they choose, to step back occasionally from the tragic romance and scrutinize a patriarchal society with a violent honor code.

But the highlight of this buoyant, pared-down, theatre-in-the-round production playing at Broadway’s intimate Circle in the ...

1. The play begins with a spoiler! Romeo and Juliet starts with a sonnet that gives the plot away. The prologue, which begins Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay ...