In the promotional run-up to director Sam Gold’s production of “Romeo + Juliet,” much effort was made to promote the intensity of its young stars’ feelings, justifying the exorcism of that prosaic ampersand in the title in favor of an additive plus sign.

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler lead the nihilistic, nonsensical “Romeo + Juliet.” Nearby, Juliana Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in the sentimental “Left on Tenth.”

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler star in Sam Gold’s frenzied, youthful staging of the Shakespeare tragedy.

Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers sure are getting a work out these days, what with Tom Holland’s recent stab in London, the enduringly popular girl power take of & Juliet and no doubt one or two others percolating somewhere even as I write.

A few blocks from the new, extremely loud and ultimately tiresome Romeo + Juliet on Broadway—the word “and” clearly now deemed unacceptably square and boring (Circle in the Square, booking through Feb.

But, without question, Kit Connor’s Romeo is the sole reason to get thee to the theater. What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix