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This Shakespeare rendition is not so much a reconceptualization as a recontextualization of the 400-year-old play. This Romeo + Juliet is a rich visual feast, besotted with the fervor of its acrobatic camerawork and kinetic staging and its mind-bending aggregation of unrelated but resonant fragments of 20th century iconography. It is a Shakespearean work thoroughly conceived for the screen. DiCaprio and Danes again prove that they are two of the best actors of their generation. And William Shakespeare has once more demonstrated that he is a storyteller for all time.

Al Pacino stars as Shylock in this film rendition of Shakespeare's thorniest play.

It's flighty, improbable stuff, meant not to be a historical restorative but a modern romantic tribute to the scribe whose words have launched a million sonnets.

Dr. James Shapiro tackles the Bard one slice at a time

Austin Shakespeare's new take on Shakespeare's farce takes some time figuring out its own identity

Why the first collection of the Bard's plays is such a big deal and cause to celebrate on his 400th death anniversary

Summer is the time for Shakespeare, so naturally here are a couple of the Bard's plays being staged in the Austin area -- Julius Caesar from the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Two Gentlemen of Verona from Different Stages -- and directors Paul Norton and Norman Blumensaadt to explain how they came to produce them this season.

This exhibition celebrates the Bard with rare artifacts from the Ransom Center's holdings

PBS film Take Pains. Be Perfect. puts UT's theatre program center stage

Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills has a deft touch at getting the Bard to the barre.

A dream comes true for the Austin Shakespeare Festival when it gets to perform the Bard's As You Like It in Richard Garriott's replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner's marvelous production

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

This production of the Greek tragedy asks the audience to consider the whole story before passing judgment

An Austin-infused Arden is more poetic license than artistic alchemy

This new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic takes wing well enough but doesn't quite soar

Less-than-magical production salvaged by a night of unexpected spontaneity

This military-themed staging of the tragedy gets lost in a haze of design and technical issues

"Who is it that can tell me who I am?" Not this Shakespeare biopic.

Normally a maker of big, explosive movies, Roland Emmerich directs this conspiracy-minded potboiler which questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.

The Scottish Play – still cursed after all these years

Shakespeare program earns honors as historic buildings fade

This ragtag biographical portrait plays something like Meet the Parents vs. Shakespeare in Love: A Farce in Three Acts.

With the arrival of September, Austin is again awash in Shakespeare. Five productions -- from a minimalist Romeo and Juliet to a deconstructed comedy goofing on all the plays -- are currently playing Central Texas stages.

'Living With Shakespeare' helps you manage Will-ophilia

The Rude Mechanicals Tear Into Shakespeare