Last week I witnessed two productions on complete opposite ends of the theatrical compendium. One was William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, starring English actor and ...

The early 17th century potboiler “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Director and adapter Joel Coen, working here without brother Ethan, took on this film version with ...

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In his career thus far, the director has worked with London’s National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C., where he currently serves as the ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

Ever since its founder, Tyrone Guthrie, hung out his shingle in Minneapolis and launched the regional theater movement in the ...

The Michigan Shakespeare Festival is returning for the summer, starting this week. The festival opens on Tuesday with The Tragedy of Macbeth. Artistic director Janice Blixt says last year’s main ...

If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re ...

“Saltburn,” “Gossip Girl,” “Dynasty” and even the color red are all inspirations for this version of “Macbeth,” as directed by J.P. Quirk for the Albright Theatre. William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...