BUSTLE: In & Juliet, Shakespeare’s Wife Finally Gets Her Own Well-Deserved Story Line

Glitter follows Betsy Wolfe everywhere these days. The actor is performing eight times a week in the new Broadway musical & Juliet — a clever, confetti-filled remix of Romeo and Juliet soundtracked by your favorite pop hits — and the sparkly stuff hangs around long after she’s left the stage. “I don’t even want to tell you where I’ve found glitter,” she says, joking. “My house is now full of it, almost as if glitter is just part of the floors.”

But it’s fitting for & Juliet, whose ubiquitous songs from Swedish mega-songwriter Max Martin have just as much staying power. The musical’s 30-plus hits include boy-band choruses of “I Want It That Way,” kiss-off anthems like “Stronger” and “Since U Been Gone,” and a rousing version of Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life.”

The story takes the doomed romance of Romeo and Juliet and wonders… what if Juliet hadn’t died at the end? Wolfe poses that question as Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare (played by Kinky Boots alum Stark Sands), then seizes her husband’s quill as the couple joust for literary control throughout the show.