‘Romeo + Juliet’ review — Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler are star-crossed and starry-eyed
The whole thing is undeniably entertaining, but the additions of Antonoff’s songs, Sonya Tayeh’s choreography, and intermittent modern slang don’t serve the play as much as they feel like empty spectacle, inserted out of fear its target audience — short-form TikTok devotees, per the stereotypes of us Gen Z-ers — won’t otherwise stay engaged for 2.5 hours.
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