Articles about Macbeth
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THE EMPTY DARKNESS OF THE HEART   Third time lucky: after two glumly disappointing 2018 productions steeped in directorial gimmicks  – RSC and NT – the ca…
A daring counterintuitive reading proves richly rewardingMacbeth has rarely seemed quite as metrosexual as in this gorgeous shadow-painted production that marks artistic director at the Glob…
This Macbeth should be an absolute blinder with such a strong and perfectly brooding lead… but unfortunately, the production falls a little flat in pivotal places.
Overall it is a beautiful re-telling of Macbeth, keeping true to the script but taking a twist on a unique element. Macbeth at the Barbican is not to be missed.
Despite a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, this proves another disappointment of a Macbeth as the RSC starts is autumn residency at the Barbican.
Rebel And Misfits transports audiences to the middle of a pulsing, modernized interpretation of Macbeth in the third installment of its Immersive Theatre Project, where a roughly 10 minute b…
There is a peculiar absence of majesty at the heart of the National Theatre's touring production of Macbeth.
Is it ironic that the most emotionally powerful scene of the RSC's Macbeth at the Barbican comes in a rare moment of silence and stillness, a scene when the Macbeths are nowhere to be seen?
The RSC's production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay, takes up its London residency at the Barbican, bringing the famed brutalism of the theatre right onto the stage itself. But this r…
Rebel & Misfits stages 'immersive' production.
Something wicked this way comes…" It's Merely Theatre, as the company tours its brand new production of the Scottish Play in rep with Much Ado About Nothing.
Polly Findlay's Royal Shakespeare Company production comes to the capital
Embracing the darkness of the play and space, we are 'cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears' alongside Macbeth in Polly Findlay's terrifying and thoughtful productio…
In contrast to Rufus Norris' Macbeth at the National, with Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, the RSC's current production is focused and direct. This ensures that it is more of a success, bu…
There was a significant "first" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) 2018-19 ReDiscovery Reading Series at the Lansburgh Theatre this week. It was a reading of the enthralling, fearless …
Horror flick echoes fail to meet all the play's challengesIt has been said before: Macbeth's reputation for bad luck has more to do with the difficulty of bringing off a successful prod…
Edward Bennett returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company for his third season, appearing in Polly Findlay's Macbeth.As the production comes toLondon, Bennett gives us an insight into Findlay'…
London is welcoming a gender-revised version of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" this week and it is saying farewell to the impressive "Lehman Trilogy."Two other revived plays mark the c…
I'm a sucker for inventive adaptations of Shakespeare plays, so Paper Cinema's Macbeth, a live-action, silent movie version, is hugely appealing.
Inspired by the adaptations of Welles and Polanski, Paper Cinema's Macbeth is as much a love letter to 'The Scottish Play' as Citizen Kane is to the language of cinema itself.
Paper Cinema has condensed Shakespeare's most accessible (and sensational) tragedy to a 75-minute run, using their signature multimedia style. Entirely wordless but
Most of the time, Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of Macbeth is compelling.
On Tuesday night, the Chicago Cubs learned a tough lesson from "Macbeth": "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.…
Little Lake Theatre opened their modern version of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth Thursday evening. The production, directed by Little Lake’s Artistic Director Jena Oberg, uses the campu…
Here’s a selection of upcoming auditions in New York City and around the country.
