Articles about Macbeth
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The awesome thing about Shakespeare is the fact that you can use his plays as blank canvasses to paint on your directorial concept. They contain great, timeless stories that often work in ju…
Shakespeare's classic drama begins performances this evening on the F. Otto Haas Stage.
The Manhattan Shakespeare Project will present the world premiere of Macbeth: The Unsex Me Here Project, in which audiences will be able to decide which actors portray which iconic character…
Something extraordinary is happening on Scotland's stages these days, and it has resulted in the creation of two productions that serve as intriguing meditations on the futility (and inevita…
In recent years New York has seen a one-man Macbeth, several traditional Macbeths, a deconstructed Macbeth (Sleep No More) and even a drunken Macbeth. But Chicago Shakespeare Theater is …
Here's something you've probably never thought of: What happens after the tyrant Macbeth is overthrown at the end of Shakespeare's great drama?
The post David Grieg’s ‘Dunsinane&…
'Our newly commissioned adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Jeffrey Hatcher Tuesdays with Morrie, Columbo will have its world premiere mid-February at t…
'Striking and innovative, giving us an astute and intelligent new reading of the play'
Former Newsnight host to take part in courtroom drama starring Christopher Eccleston as the Scottish kingThe crime is something wicked and the trial promises toil and trouble. Lord Macbeth i…
Lost Theatre, London: A young cast delivers a crisp and clear, but far too rarely engaging production of the Scottish play. The few original directorial touches have less re-interpretive eff…
Vault festival, LondonWitches like sound technicians cackle to hell and back while murder happens through a baby monitor in Filter's wintry take on the blood-stained tragedy Continue reading…
Citizens GlasgowFilter's co-production of the Scottish play arrives soundtracked with bangs, whooshes and tinkles Continue reading...
The question of the year for theatre wonks has been answered: Does the sequel hold up to the original? We've waited a long time for this particular answer " for more than four hundred years.…
Filter Theatre's electronic spattering of Macbeth is a "Hogwarts hootenanny of spells, flying sorcery and ghostly illusion"
"Full of sound and fury"? Well, certainly full of sound in this radical, 75 minute re-imagining of Shakespeare's darkest tragedy by Filter, a company celebrated for their irreverent, penetra…
Macbeth is dead. What's next? In David Greig's imaginative and ferociously topical "Dunsinane," the English army occupies a hostile and internally fragmented Scotland. Faster than you can sa…
According to the Daily Mail, stage and screen veteran and director of Disney's upcoming live-action CINDERELLA film, Kenneth Branagh has created his own theatre company and is currently iron…
Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko makes her North American debut as the fatally ambitious Lady Macbeth. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts his first-ever performances of Verdi's t…
Today in 1982, Macbeth opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for 21 performances. Written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shak…
RECOMMENDED Covetousness, fueled by ambition and greed, drives the plot of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," where Scotland's political system is upended twice, with murder the tool to power,…
Verdi's Shakespearean Tragedy Macbeth on Great Performances at the Met, February 1; Željko LuÄić and Anna Netrebko Headline
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Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: Filter's previous interpretation of Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) was an iconoclastic take on a tale of romance and puritanism, that had great fun breaking down…
Today is the birthday of the great American portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). His 1889 portrait of Dame Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth seemed an appropriate painting of his to celebr…
The Abstract Sentiment Theatre Company will present Macbeth: Tim Burton Meets Shakespeare, an Off Off-Broadway Tim Burton-styled take on the dark tragedy with a con…
Theater Talk Patrick Stewart, Rupert Goold on Macbeth
Original tape date: April 18, 2008.
Tony Nominee Patrick Stewart and director Rupert Goold of "Macbeth," discuss Broadway&…
