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.
Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Michelle Terry is to star with her real-life husband Paul Ready in Macbeth. Macbeth will open the theatre's
Shakespeare's tragedies need to be told for today's world. It's time for their female voices to be brought to the foreWhen you're a freelance director and you're given a play to consider, yo…
If you want to get yourself in the mood for the Folger Theatre's current hit production of Macbeth " a famous adaptation from the 1660's of William Shakespeare's original tragedy, by his god…
In  January 1666, famed diarist Samuel Pepys saw a performance of the William Davenant Macbeth and called it a "strange perfection.” The production that just opened at the Folger Th…
Folger Theatre revisits a Restoration-era version of the tragedy.
I've seen Macbeth performed in the round, outdoors, in the nude, multiple film and TV versions, various homages and parodies across multiple media, I saw a spirited production last month by …
The award-winning set designer talks to Eleanor Ross about her latest project, Jude Christian's Othellomacbeth, the influences behind her work and why
This is not actor Ian Merrill Peakes' first time playing Macbeth on the Folger stage. Ten years ago, he and Kate Eastwood Norris played Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth, and now return to their roles un…
In 2008, Folger Theatre's Macbeth, directed by Aaron Posner and Teller (of the magician duo: Penn and Teller), starred Ian Merrill Peaks and Kate Eastwood Norris in the titular roles. Ten ye…
An adaptation from the 1660s is revived, with singing witches and less-archaic language.
"The moon is down; I have not heard the clock." Those words"spoken by 10-year-old Owen Peakes in the Folger Theatre's startling new production of Macbeth"send a faint tremor through the pack…
By Marcina Zaccaria The Scottish play is always a bloody, vengeful riot, fit to topple any pre-existing play structure that might rival it. Fans of this Shakespea…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe may once have been considered a rite of passage, where many of today's leading performers cut their teeth and before
Fri, September 7 @ Folger Theatre, presented by Folger Theatre -- Robert Aubry Davis—host of WETA’s “Around Town” and of the national early music program “Mille…