The director-performer has overseen four shows this season, many of them about love and ambition, while balancing family.

Ava Roy Adapts the Bard to Seaside Civil War Landmark  by A.J. Jefferson “And what seem’d corporal melted / As breath into the wind…”  A blustery Pacific gale buffets us at We Players’ “Macbeth”…

There’s nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare’s Scottish play around the hero’s notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris’s Macbeth (An Undoing), whi…

For artist Whitney White, staying open to change is essential The director, actor and musician shares what she takes with her to a performance, what makes her day better and what she finds essential to being an…

Take in Shakespeare, experimental theater and a three-play series on the fallout of Brexit, all available to watch at home.

The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptability’ – but he�…

“Moving too fast,” Jamie sings in The Last Five Years—and it’s not a bad way to describe Whitney White’s current pace. A rising force in American theater, White is a director, writer and performer, wh…

The Understudy premieres today on STRATFEST@HOME! This Stratfest@Home original, filmed at the Festival’s Warehouse and Avon Theatre, offers a glimpse behind the curtain of the theatre world… Tom Rooney sta…

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights Performance…

Tim Crouch’s I, Banquo, onstage at Media’s Hedgerow Theatre, asks us in the words of Macbeth’s slain best friend what we would do if someone gave us a prophecy of absolute power. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer re…

It’s weird. “Othello” isn’t witty “Hamlet.” The play is not even as funny as “Macbeth.” Maybe it’s because they’re in the presence of celebrities. But I get the sense that the viewers are se…

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThis brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness Here is a Macbeth for young audiences th…

Playbill 󱢏. 3h󰞋󱟠. 󰟝. Something weird is heading to the U.K. · Weird, New Pop Version of Macbeth, Will Make World Premiere in 2026. PLAYBILL.COM.

The new Shakespeare-inspired musical from Nick Butcher and Scottish siblings Kerri Watt and Fraser Watt will play the Newcastle Theatre Royal.

Weird, an electrifying pop-powered musical reimagining Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth, will make its world premiere at Newcastle Theatre Royal next year

ETT has released production images for Artistic Director Richard Twyman’s reimagined production of Macbeth, running at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of …

DramaWatch: Only connect, all over town Linda FergusonWith a multitude of shows opening in the next few weeks, the artistic teams read like a who’s who of Portland theater favorites. Plus: Other openings, inc…

Trafalgar Releasing announces that the cinema release of the Donmar Warehouse’s award-winning production of MACBETH has grossed over £2M globally in its first week

Interview: Bianca Stephens plays Lady Macduff in English Touring Theatre's production of Macbeth which will open at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

An all new clip has been released of David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in the cinema release of the critically acclaimed production of Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth. Check out the video here!

Interview: Ros Watt stars as Malcolm in the cinema release of Macbeth, alongside David Tennant and Cush Jumbo which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End

The Drama League has announced the 2025 Special Recognition Honorees of the 91st Annual Drama League Awards. The honorees will be celebrated for their outstanding lifetime contributions to the theater industry …

Review: Macbeth in Cinemas "thoroughly Shakespearean and absolutely modern at the same time"

MacBeth with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson

ETT today announce full casting for Artistic Director Richard Twyman’s version of Macbeth, which is excitingly reworked for 2025 for a limited run at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

(via John Singh, J2 Communications.) After breaking box-office records on the West End, the five-star, “hypnotic,” “magical” production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH starring David Tennant and Cush Ju…

When one first sees Connecticut actress Kate MacCluggage on stage in the Broadway rom-com “Left on Tenth,” she’s a sunny California friend of the main character played by Julianna Margulies. Then minutes …

It’s a misty autumn afternoon and along a winding country road in New Milford, a housing development emerges of stately though modestly-scaled homes with manageable lawns and pristine porches. In one of the d…

Phillip James Brannon (Macbeth, Junk) and Chris Renfro (Queer as Folk) will join Cole Escola's hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre. Brannon will star as Mary’s Husband, taking over the rol…

The production was delayed after a key cast became unable to continue their performance

A West End performance of Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, faced a 15-minute delay after an audience member disrupted the show at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

The production was delayed for 15 minutes after the audience member returned from the bathroom

As the production draws to a close, the Donmar Warehouse’s critically acclaimed Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo has broken box office records at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Whitney White returns to New Haven to star in her distinctive take on a Shakespeare classic, "Macbeth in Stride," at the Yale Repertory Theatre Dec. 5-14.

Come out to play with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s star-studded concept album or enjoy an improvised movie from the Goes Wrong team Amal Khalidi and Tatenda Naomi Matsvai’s highly affecting play for …

Scottish costumes, opulent banquet scenes, and powerful, evocative lines like “To arms!” and “Victory or Death!” are just a few of the highlights that make Verdi’s “Macbeth,” presented by the Wash…

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny Great actors have always attracted artist…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/macbeth/ NEW PRODUCTION Power’s price, paid in blood. Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespear…

A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.

Zero Mostel as Peter Pan? Carol Channing as Lady Macbeth? Robert Preston and Sammy Davis, Jr. as the Dromio twins in THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE? Sounds crazy, no? But in 1964, Al Hirschfeld – arguably the world�…

A deep dive into theatrical superstitions, plus checking in with Kate Hertz at Springs Ensemble Theatre and our Top 10 Colorado Headliners

BAM has revealed its 2025 Winter Spring Season, featuring Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire, Whitney White's Macbeth in Stride, and more. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Pulling back the curtain on the peculiar customs and enduring superstitions that help define life backstage.

Few actors inhabit a character as fully as Anne-Marie Duff, whether it’s Elizabeth I or Lady Macbeth. As the second season of Bad Sisters arrives on our screens, she talks to Eva Wiseman Anne-Marie Duff was o…

Her acting has seen her as the Roy family matriarch, an assassin in Killing Eve and in no fewer than 21 Shakespeare theatre roles. In her new book she imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have sai…

A stunning production of Macbeth makes this play not only fresh but freshly relevant. Fine acting, innovative touches, and superb production values. At The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey through November 17.

Back on stage for the first time in over a decade, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed contemporary adaptation of The Duchess Of Malfi, playin…

Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . .  The endless elasticity of Shakespeare can be stretched to fit any variety of settings: a pre-gentrification West Side, an animated African savannah, a greasy spoon in Pe…

Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End, will come to cinemas next year.

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 material. Who needs …

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 violence and its e…

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes! This portentous line is uttered by one of the three weird sisters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Coming to L.A. this October is a spooky stagi…

Shakespeare’s Othello is a play overflowing with passion, rage and intrigue. In the upcoming Broadway revival, it will also have two of the most magnetic leading men around pitted against one another: Denzel …

Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’ in the Cannonball hub of this year’s Fringe is a one-man riff on Macbeth that, despite its sincerity, fails to fully engage in the implications of its conceit. Kira…

Featuring a dynamic cast of 23, MUST returns to the Alexander Theatre with William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This intensely theatrical and

Director Shana Cooper joins The Old Globe's Justin Waldman to discuss her visionary new production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with a…

The complete cast is set for Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Vladimir, starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz. Written by Erika Sheffer and directed by Tony Award winner Da…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: She won your heart as Lottie Gee, Billie Holliday, and Bess (and that's been just the past few years). Audra McDonald has grown to be perhaps the greatest talent of this generatio…

Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and strategies in the c…

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonTamara Harvey’s first production as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director highlights the play’s sharp political intelligence For reasons of familiarity to t…

The world premiere of Vladimir, a new play by Erika Sheffer directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan, has announced initial casting. The MTC production will begin performances at New York City Center Stage I on …

The world premiere of Vladimir, a new play by Erika Sheffer directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan, has announced initial casting. The MTC production will begin performances at New York City Center Stage I on …

Stories include Sarafina, Godspell with Don Scardnio, Chess, Fences, Hair, MacBeth with Glenda Jackson, Hair Concert, The Wonder Years Musical, Michael McGuire, Al Hirschfeld, Robards and Dewhurst in O'Neill Re…

Leontyne Mbele-Mbong and Michael Torres are so good in this “echo” of “Macbeth” that you might realize you never fully understood Shakespeare’s tragedy before.

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 witches, working with J…

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 thane ‘What happen…

It was “Macbeth” that drew Judi Dench to the theater, after she overheard her older brother in a school production  recite the line from the play: “What bloody man is that?” and she thought: “My Go…

Why and how Shakespeare Theatre Company took a starry, bloody, transatlantic ‘Macbeth’ to the warehouse.

The startling political developments of late are being viewed through a theatrical lens, repeatedly.   A surprising number of professional commentators have invoked Shakespeare, sometimes awkwardly: “Nothin…

ATA Journeyman KEN COUGHLIN has been chosen to direct MACBETH for the American Theatre of Actors’ Shakespeare Summer Fest 2024. Kaitlyn Clark spoke to Ken about with version of “That Scottish Play” Congra…

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard Anyone who saw last year’s…

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A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman What is the Shakespeare canon if not the ideal treasure trove o…

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a production at Howard Uni…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: X-Men's James McAvoy talks to the cameras at the 2014 Oliviers. He wasn't nominated for a prize this year, but was a special guest presenter. He has most recently starred as Macbet…

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 considered jinxed, and h…