While it’s highly likely that Shakespeare penned a pair of his most enduring plays while quarantined during the Bubonic Plague, and that his heartbreaking classic Romeo and Juliet is peppered with references to “the infection” and the well worn “a plaque over both your houses”, Shakespeare had to wait until London theatres reopened to introduce his latest. Live theatres are again shuttered four centuries later, but this time around, theatre makers have been zooming online to escape the current creative confines, providing their own sort of bread lines, delivering food for thought to deprived theatre patrons starving for live entertainment.
Realizing that Romeo originally met his star-crossed lover Juliet at a forbidden “masked ball”, Los Angeles theatre director Miles Berman wondered what the Bard might have concocted if he’d had access to the internet. The result is “Romeo & Juliet; Virtually”, a live “zoom party” airing online in August as part of the #FringeFromHome Hollywood Fri
