Kit Connor & Rachel Zegler Are Bringing An Apocalyptic Gen-Z Twist On ‘Romeo + Juliet’ To Broadway

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Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler will co-star in an adaptation of ‘Romeo + Juliet’ with music by Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff.

Thoughts, prayers and No Fear Shakespeares for X’s bigoted troll community today, who – mere days after finding out that Romeo and Juliet is neither based in fact nor written by Baz Luhrmann – have another bitter pill to swallow: not only will Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers tread the boards in the “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy” come May, but Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler are heading to Broadway in a Sam Gold-directed adaptation of Romeo + Juliet at an undisclosed point...

Gold, who’s previously lent his Tony-winning touch to renditions of Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, says his staging has been inspired by “the presidential election coming up in November”: “I felt like making a show this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger young people feel about the world they are inheriting.” The synopsis does indeed smell like TikTok-addled, two-degree-warming-triggered teen spirit: “The youth are fucked.

 

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