The central characters feel like an afterthought in Barbara Gaines's contemporized version. Setting Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary urban setting inevitably draws comparisons to West Side Story, even though Barbara Gaines's current staging for Chicago Shakes (the first time she's ever directed the play) resists that interpretation by casting the warring Montague and Capulet families ac…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PM on November 12, 2019