URBANA — University of Illinois theater Professor Robert Anderson remembers his high school days with great fondness even though he was living in Riverdale and through forced busing had to attend ...

With that scandalous title out of the way, I assume, dear reader, that you are not unacquainted with Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Quite honestly, it’s difficult to avoid — there’s the original ...

You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas than ...