Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler shine — and smooch — in director Sam Gold's revival of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo + Juliet,' which opened on Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City.

This go-round, Gold’s big idea is, pretty much, Season 3 of “Euphoria.” Scored by dance music on a set of teddy bears and Hello Kittys by the firm called dots that’s bathed in designer Isabella Byrd’s blue and pink light, you feel as though you’re a fly on the wall at a house party in the suburbs while someone’s parents are away.

You'd think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families' senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravitas than director Sam Gold treats it in his somewhat vulgar Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet.