Inspired by Italian Quattrocento paintings and architecture as well as Zeffirelli’s 1960 production of the play at the Old Vic, the monumental sets for Romeo and Juliet emphasise the ...

PostClassical Ensemble — which in past seasons has profiled Silvestre Revueltas, who scored the Mexican film “Redes,” and ...

Years after Franco Zeffirelli's two definitive movies based on Shakespeare's plays – The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Romeo and Juliet (1968) – Zeffirelli came back to the Bard with his 1990 ...

Next week, the group will perform the work of composer Nino Rota, the Academy Award-winning magician behind the scores for “The Godfather” Parts 1 and 2.

But what about Tony Todd, star of the Candyman flicks, Olivia Hussey, female lead of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, and Mitzi Gaynor, forever kissing Rossano Brazzi on the cover of the ...

Hussey, who was 73 when she died in December, became a global star as a teen for her lead role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1968). Observant viewers noticed that Tony ...

She won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe for playing the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film version of Romeo & Juliet and later turned up in Black Christmas and Death on the Nile.