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.

Romeo + Juliet has officially kicked off its Broadway run. The much-anticipated revamp of the legendary Shakespeare play, starring West Side Story star Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper 's Kit Connor, celebrated its opening night on October 24, and its stars were dressed for the occasion —before they changed into their costumes, of course.

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.