Articles about Macbeth
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In today's Wall Street Journal I review an all-female off-Broadway production of Macbeth. Here's an excerpt.
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Hunter College's Hunter Theater Project, which mounts profess…
When the actor playing Lady Macduff injured her knee a few minutes into a performance at the Watermill Theatre in England, the production stopped " until a woman who toured nationally as Lad…
An audience member stepped into save a production of Macbeth, after one of its leading actors suffered an injury. Emma Barclay was
By Mark Ludmon
Derby Theatre and Queen's Theatre Hornchurch have announced casting for their production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth to be directed by Douglas Rintoul.
This post Casting …
"Life's But A Walking Shadow" Audition Monologues for Macbeth
Written by Rosalind Helsinger
December 29, 2019
Looking for that perfect monologue to nail your audition for the Scottish p…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock gets bloody with Lazarus Theatre company care of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Greenwich Theatre. Got any questions?
Some praised leadership for pulling the two plays while others criticized them for pursuing an agenda that they say puts other livelihoods at risk.
By Bob Shuman John Doyle's production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-characte…
Putin flip-flops, a Darth Vader plant pot, Fleabag's hot priest meltdown, No Man Is an Island oven gloves … get your Christmas in gear with our guide to the hottest, artsiest presents arou…
Macbeth is a play that can easily get out of hand. Witches, murders, and a semi-psychotic title character can quickly devolve into a blood bath starring a raging tyrant, with a side show of …
By: David Sheward
November 17, 2019: A trio of the most iconic and sought-after male title roles in world theater are currently being tackled Off-Broadway in a variety of productions ra…
There has always been a curiosity and appreciation for bold attempts at new interpretations or the reimagining of the classics and it seems there have been endless attempts on putting a new …
On an almost bare stage, the scenes bleed into each other with little sense that the setting or situation has changed.
The post Review: The Speed Is the Rub at Classic Stage Company's <em…
"Something wicked this way comes..." but for all the wrong reasons in Classic Stage Company's gloomy production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
The post 'Macbeth' and the Thane of Thrones appear…
By: Bernard Carragher
November 1, 2019: The Classic Stage Company's Artistic Director, John Doyle, is taking a different look at Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Using a minimal ensemble of ac…
Though John Doyle breaks the rules in all the right ways, newbies to the play are likely to t become confused at times by its gender-blind casting and the nine cast members who play mu…
There has been a recent trend to perform Shakespeare as minimally as possible and with as few actors as possible. However, the question arises what is gained? When the doubling of roles prov…
The Vienna State Opera will stream Placido Domingo in Verdi's MACBETH on November 1st, 2019 - amid allegations that the opera star has for years harassed people he has worked with - as previ…
Classic Stage Company presents Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by John Doyle. Let's see what the critics had to say.
The Classic Stage Company production opened October 27.
The production of Macbeth at the Classic Stage Company (CSC), directed and designed by John Doyle, is a streamlined affair. It runs 1:40 without an intermission; it has a cast of only nin…
A bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare's thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses.
'When shall we three meet again?' the eight weird sisters ask each other in unison at the outset of director John Doyle's Classic Stage Company production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, shaved do…
★★★★ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare's murderous Scots.
The post Macbeth: A Slimmed-D…
