Articles about Macbeth
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GONE are the kimonos, the butsudan (a Buddhist altar to the dead) and the references to Edo-era civil wars. In their place are battlefields reminiscent of Vietnam or Cambodia, not Scotland or Japan. And there are also mirrors — lots of them — a device designed to reflect the duality of everyday life.
These are the latest innovations of Japan's best-known classical theater director, Yukio Ninagawa, who is bringing his latest production of "Macbeth" to Brooklyn this week.
Patrick Stewart is starring in a new Macbeth on Broadway. It's a Macbeth on steroids. There are enough jolts and shocks in director Rupert Goold's flashy—and surprisingly long—transfer from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to make you feel as if your seat is directly connected to the theater's electrical system.
Macbeth contains some of the deepest and darkest poetry in all of Shakespeare, and the sheer perversity of deleting every last syllable of it no doubt held special appeal for the cheeky arti…
When Britain's Eddie Izzard made his Broadway debut this year in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg," he surprised many with his dramatic turn in the Peter Nichols play about a couple coping wit…
A high-speed, stylized Macbeth at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Question: How do you transform a play that's been done and done and done into a provocative, brand-new experience? Answer: Have Rupert Goold, London's most imaginative young Shakespeare inte…
An overheard exit remark by a boy of about twelve: "Awesome!" For once that overused adjective says it all.
How nice to report that the curse has finally been lifted with Adrian Noble's new staging.
Producer-director-designer-writer Frank Cwiklik takes the well-worn tragedy and extrapolates the source material (as well as other Shakespearean motifs) into a dark, decadent fantasy world w…
Teller has a simple aim for the production of "Macbeth" he's co-directing at Red Bank, N.J.'s Two River Theater Company: to scare the hell out of high-school boys.
Macbeth's continuing journey with its Broadway arrival coinciding with Rupert Gool's re-envisioning The Last Days of Judas Iscariot in London.
Shakespeare as if Played in Vietnam With Style by BRUCE WEBER
Yukio Ninagawa's production of Shakespeare's play, part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is gaudily stylish but undeniably exciting.
The Polish company Teatr Piesn Kozla (Sing of the Goat Theater) presents Shakespeare's original text (in English), "chopped this way and that, … half-sung, half-spoken" by simply clad a…
JUNEAU, Alaska - Battles are waged to the beat of drums, witches as land otters slink across the stage and Banquo's ghost dons a raven mask in a Tlingit language adaptation of Shakespeare's …
