Students can have fun and learn a lot by making some 21st-century linguistic and thematic tweaks to the Bard’s plays.

For an audience of mainly college-aged women in Circle in the Square, a circular theater with audience members all around, that something hot was Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” on Broadway.

The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked ...