Review: Life After Romeo Is Silly, Campy Fun in '& Juliet' Musical

Review: Clever ‘& Juliet’ a Shakespearean pop romp for all ages

What happens when you mash up William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” with a feminist/non-binary subplot and more than two dozen of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin’s most famous pop songs? You get “& Juliet,” the wildly clever 2022 Broadway musical now playing through Sunday at the San Diego Civic Theatre. While the national touring production may not be quite as high-tech as the Broadway staging I saw in 2023, it’s just as funny, well-cast and ent…

Review: Life after Romeo is silly, campy fun in '& Juliet' musical

DOWNTOWN – The hit jukebox musical from the most popular songwriter you’ve never heard of, Max Martin, is at the Civic Theatre through this weekend, presented by Broadway San Diego. The cute and often silly musical follows Juliet in a wholly original plot in which she does not end it all after Romeo dies. Instead, Anne Hathaway takes up where her husband William Shakespeare left off to send Juliet and a gaggle of friends, chaperoned by her nurse…