A LOT OF BLOOD WILL OUT Blood will have blood. It also sells tickets. And the theater's thirstiest sanguinary spectacle remains the unspeakable Scottish tragedy. The darkest doings the Bard …
For the last 412 years, "Macbeth" has been a great bear of a play to produce. I don't mean because it's boring (it's not), or suffering of a deficiency poetical (hardly), or lacking great ch…
So, Teller, what are you doing working on the Scottish play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater? "I can't think of anything more suspenseful than the murder of Duncan" says the famously taciturn …
By Douglas Mayo The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth will undertake a UK tour in 2018-19. The Macbeth UK Tour starts at the Lowry in Septe…
Despicable acts: Rosemary Waugh reviews Shostakovich's opera, based on the same short story that inspired William Oldroyd and Alice Birch's recent film. The post Review: Lady Macbeth of Mts…
Eva-Maria Westbroek is a knockout in this revival of Shostakovich's opera
Polly Findlay pulls out all the stops for her visually enticing production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Famously condemned by Stalin in 1936, Shostakovich’s graphic Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk still has the power to shock. Until the bleak final
Scandinavia's king of crime turns the tragedy into a deliciously oppressive page-turnerThe Hogarth Shakespeare project invites modern novelists to reimagine some of his most celebrated plays…
Aaron Posner and Teller also directed "The Tempest" in 2015. Then, Teller provided a variety of jaw-dropping feats for the magician Caliban.
"Macbeth" (Hogarth), by Jo Nesbo...
How do you do "Macbeth" in 2018? How do you make it fresh and new?
Macbeth Reviewed by Dana Martin Fearless Imp and CTB Productions at the McCadden Place Theatre Through April 29th There are daggers in men's smiles at the McCadden Place Theatr…
Phyllida Lloyd directs Verdi's opera with a cast including Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi, Željko LuÄić and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, running at the Royal Opera House until 10 April …
According to Operabase, Verdi's Macbeth is the 29th most performed opera, ranking higher than Cavalleria Rusticana and Salome. Perhaps with the intention of helping it climb up a few positio…
Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star as the Macbeths in this new production directed by Rufus Norris at the National Theatre until 23 June. But what have the critics had to say about it?
There is much to like and enjoy about this production of Macbeth, including inventive performances and strong ideas. However, Rufus Norris should probably play to his strengths as a director…
The soprano delivers three hours of no-holds-barred singing in this dark production of Verdi's opera
Russian diva Anna Netrebko returns to Covent Garden as the monstrous Lady M.
As with several other unappealing Royal Opera productions, Phyllida Lloyd's 2002 staging survives because at each revival the company can slot in
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Dorfman, National Theatre; Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal, BathTragedy meets levity in the RSC's Scottish play. Plus, a captivating …
An imaginatively staged take on The Scottish Play which, in its leading roles, is stunningly performed. All in all a bloody, good, Macbeth.
Why is "the Scottish play" so hard to get right? Two productions in Britain show why Shakespeare's shortest tragedy is also his trickiest.