Romeo + Juliet @ Circle in the Square

The Play: Romeo + Juliet; this 21st century spin on the classic love story, which features inclusive and gender-bending casting, music by the hip producer and frequent Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff and Gen-Z idols Kit Connor and Rachel Ziegler in the title roles, is designed to appeal to young theatergoers and other young people the producers obviously hope to attract 

Written by: William Shakespeare        Directed by: Sam Gold

One good thing: Connor is everything you’d want in a Romeo: swoon-worthy, suitably sensitive and able to speak the Bard’s language beautifully

One not-so-great thing: All the double and triple casting—one example: Juliet’s Nurse and the hothead Tybalt are played by the same actor—makes it hard to follow who’s doing what to whom, especially since costume changes are so rare and so random