For an acting company, Shakespeare is both daunting and liberating. His work has long been declared public domain, so there is a tantalizing impetus for a complete and total overhaul of the …
For more than four centuries, "Macbeth" has been one of Shakespeare's best-known works. This tragedy explores the themes of fate, loyalty, power, and ambition, as well as the concept of viol…
Featuring a dynamic cast of 23, MUST returns to the Alexander Theatre with William Shakespeare's Macbeth. This intensely theatrical and
By SHARON EBERSON For more than a year, two Pittsburgh actors have been assessing William Shakespeare’s Macbeth anew, with the purpose of coaxing from the text something fresh and meaningf…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In the new film adaption of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Kathryn Hunter plays all three witches. BroadwayWorld caught up with Hunter to discuss playing all three wit…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we rewind to 2013, when Macbeth returned to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 60 performances.
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Gleefully batty caper finds one of the weird sisters in hot cauldron water after making reckless promises of a very bright future to a passing …
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From BroadwayWorld's Archive: BroadwayWorld.com is pleased to bring you this one-minute trailer for Never Say Macbeth, the first film about the curse of Macbeth. The Shakespeare play is cons…
Colorado Shakespeare Festival kicks off an indoor season with a surprisingly enjoyable take on 'The Scottish Play' The post The humanity of 'Macbeth' shimmers in this Boulder production appe…
Following successful seasons in Edinburgh, London and New York, Zinnie Harris' acclaimed play Macbeth (An Undoing) will make its Australian
SOUND AND FURY INDEED "When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won," says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval witches, …
A cinematic presentation of a London production of "Macbeth" starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma has a limited engagement in movie theaters.
Simon Godwin is no stranger to the work of Shakespeare. Until May 5, his production of Macbeth is playing in D.C. with a cast led by Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. The film version of this …
By Bob Shuman Director Simon Godwin's structured, composed descent into the "defilement of a mind" in Macbeth is objective and clear, filmed unpoetically, Â yet sustained with uniformly st…
The production is currently running in Washington, D.C. and will also receive a series of cinema screenings.
One of Shakespeare's most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.
Max Webster directs the Donmar Warehouse production.
In attempting to make a feminist statement out of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Harris has made Lady Macbeth into the same murderous monster that her husband became in the original. This does not…
The two-performance production continues Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Celebration
Something astonishing is happening in the Brentwood neighborhood of Washington, DC"a powerful climax to Shakespeare Theatre Company's current season, complete with pyrotechnics. An old BET s…
A hit British production of Shakespeare's ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The immersive Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. this month is more than just another classical revival. Momentous in timi…
Writer/director Zinnie Harris cracks open the Scottish play to focus on the women within it. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center appear…