In this final program, we offer listeners a full performance of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy," performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, courtesy of Naxos of America. The on-screen ‘Listening Guide’ helps viewers to remain focused in the music and recaps highlights explored in the previous three programs of this series.

This special production of the play was produced to celebrate the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 40th anniversary. Director Richard Monette has set the play in the time of Mussolini, giving added pathos to the senseless hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. Megan Porter Follows, known worldwide for her starring role in Anne of Green Gables, gives a stellar performance as Juliet. The production is produced and directed by Emmy Award-winner...

Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love and encounter opposition from their families.

In Verona, Italy, gay teens Romeo and Valentine discover first love amid a bloody, centuries-old feud, putting themselves in danger of losing each other forever.

"A literary analysis of the play Romeo and Juliet. Includes information on the history and culture of Elizabethan England"--Provided by publisher.

A brilliant video release and a particularly effective version for study of the play, with Laurence Harvey as Romeo and Susan Shentall as Juliet, with an unforgettable Flora Robson as the Nurse.

Never before has Shakespeare's 'Scottish play' been performed quite like this. Trevor Kervis, director un-extraordinaire, strikes again in this farcical look at the dramatic techniques in Macbeth that have made it a favorite among thespians since Elizabethan times. Students will enjoy the quirky characters and upbeat analysis that feature in the program. If 'all the world's a stage' then Trevor Kervis must be the clown.

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together.‘A timeless story about repressed emotions and teenage...