About the show
The youth are f**cked. Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way. Emmy Award winner Kit Connor (“Heartstopper”) and Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Zegler (Spielberg’s “West Side Story”) star as Romeo and Juliet in Tony Award-winning director Sam Gold’s (Fun Home, Enemy of the People) visceral and visionary production. Music by Jack Antonoff and movement by Sonya Tayeh. Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy now belongs to a new generation on the edge.