“These characters, Viola and Will ... director Brian Newell said he first saw the stage adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love” while on a family vacation in London in 2015.

From teen rom-coms to lavish period dramas, his plays remain a blueprint for how love ... we see Shakespeare’s signature identity-swapping trope at play as Amanda Bynes’ character, Viola ...

The other star is director Kepten’s fluid staging that connects the play’s multiple scenes and characters so that each flows, as it were, into the other. For the rest, Shakespeare in Love ...