Play of the week: Macbeth, St Peter's Church, Ancoats, Manchester
Kenneth Branagh delivers his first live Shakespeare performance in 11 years in a deconsecrated Victorian church as part of the Manchester International Festival.
Kenneth Branagh delivers his first live Shakespeare performance in 11 years in a deconsecrated Victorian church as part of the Manchester International Festival.
Did no one tell Kenneth Branagh that we had a Macbeth on Broadway this season (Alan Cumming's still-running version) and that we're expected another production of the Shakespeare tra…
According to the UK's The Telegraph, an actor was injured during a battle scene by Kenneth Branagh in the Manchester International Festival production of MACBETH.
I last intimately encountered Shakespeare was in high school and now only recall sporadic lines of his poetry, but, as I watch the opening scenes of Mme. Macbeth–a gender-bending…
Producer Ken Davenport has announced an expanded rush ticket program for two of the final performances of Tony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming's acclaimed one-man Broadway production o…
The Broadway engagement of Tony Award winner Alan Cumming's one-man Macbeth has expanded its rush ticket policy to theatregoers of all ages for the final weekend of performances at the E…
Los Angeles Times 07/10/13
This is the kind of news we love to hear. A high school drama club from Alice, Texas visits New York, sees some shows, including Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies and Matilda. D…
Kenneth Branagh is back in Bard territory with a new production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" that he stars in and co-directed with Rob Ashford at the Manchester International Festival in Engla…
Playbill.com reports on "Macbeth Fan Night" July 9, where guests attended a post-show reception with Alan Cumming.
Macbeth, starring Kenneth Branagh, has sparked speculation of a Broadway transfer of the production, according to Variety. The classic is currently being performed as part of the United King…
Macbeth star Alan Cumming doth come…bearing wine and gifts! After the performance on July 9, the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner hosted Macbeth fan night, where he took sele…
If two "Macbeths" is company, is three a crowd? That's a question Broadway types have started to wonder in the wake of glowing reviews for the Kenneth Branagh-toplined revival of "Macbeth…
Alan Cumming's one-man adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth presents an exclusive event in honor of the show's fans July 9.
Dave Cunningham WhatsOnStage ★★★★★ …Kenneth Branagh (who performs in the title role) and his co-director Rob Ashford have created an engrossing production th…
In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are asked to sit through a sometimes grueling “exit interview” about their time at the company. Although that concept doesn’…
It's hard to avoid a degree of cynicism about the centrepiece of the 2013 Manchester International Festival. The venue (to whose secret location the audience is escorted) may be audacious an…
St Peter's Church, Manchester: Kenneth Branagh hasn't played in Shakespeare for more than ten years, but his technical assurance and deceptive fluency and naturalness remain unaltered. …
Eve Best made her first appearance at Shakespeare's Globe as Lady Macbeth some twelve years ago in a studiedly abstract, black-tie production that won few fans. Â
Eve Best made her first appearance at Shakespeare's Globe as Lady Macbeth some twelve years ago in a studiedly abstract, black-tie production that won few fans. Â
Shakespeare's tragedy MACBETH opened at Manchester International Festival on July 4th, 2013, starring Kenneth Branagh in the title role and Alex Kingston as Lady Macbeth. Let's see what the …
Talk about absence making the heart grow fonder! I'm referring not simply to the news value of Kenneth Branagh making one of his comparatively rare returns to the theater, this from an actor…
Palace, Manchester; Globe; Rose Lipman Building, LondonManchester international festival has always been theatrically lively. This year's programme looks the strongest yet. It opens with a c…
Turn, hellhound, turn! So cries Macduff in the climactic battle scene of Macbeth, mustering all his strength to slay Shakespeare's eponymous tyrant and deliver Scotland from the forces of ev…
Turn, hellhound, turn! So cries Macduff in the climactic battle scene of Macbeth, mustering all his strength to slay Shakespeare's eponymous tyrant and deliver Scotland from the forces of ev…