Riverside Shakespeare Company
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The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional (AEA) theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City, by W. Stuart McDowell and Gloria Skurski. Focusing on Shakespeare plays and other classical repertoire, it operated until 1997.
Riverside Shakespeare Company logo, 1977
Poster: Riverside Shakespeare Company's inaugural parks tour of Romeo & Juliet. Peter Siiteri, Stuart Rudin, Eloise Watt. (1977)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Eric Hoffmann as Puck. Summer 1978
The complete Hamlet with Kaeren Peregrin as Ophelia, 1978
Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting the play's balcony scene
L'ultimo bacio dato a Giulietta da Romeo by Francesco Hayez. Oil on canvas, 1823.
Masuccio Salernitano, author of Mariotto & Ganozza (1476), the earliest known version of Romeo & Juliet tale
Frontispiece of Giulietta e Romeo by Luigi da Porto, 1530