It’s telling – in good ways and one bad – that a 4-year-old company that offers free professional outdoor Shakespeare in a suburban park is obliterating its attendance records this summer.

“ Shakespeare in the Wild ” is presenting an abridged, 90-minute “Romeo and Juliet” in DeKoevend Park in Centennial nightly through Sunday.

Leigh Miller, the company’s founder … and producing artistic director … and the actor who plays the boneheaded Friar who thinks it’s a good idea for Juliet to fake her own suicide … believes that, if the seasonal rain holds off for this upcoming third and final weekend of performances, “R&J” will have been seen by about 3,500 people since Aug. 15. That’s a 60% increase from the 2,200 who attended “Twelfth Night” in 2024.

Last Friday, the “Wild” ones set a single

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