Tuesday, March 26, 2024
A promotional note from Quintessence Theatre Group artistic director Alex Burns about why he’s staging an “all-male” Macbeth drew a strong response from the Philly theater community. B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:58PMQuintessence Theatre Group stages a blockbuster Macbeth with an expanded script and an all-male cast, thrilling even when its reach exceeds its grasp. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PMPodcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Quintessence Theatre Group artistic director Alex Burns to talk about his new production of Macbeth.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:56PMSunday, March 24, 2024
MAGIC . ALWAYS BETTER WHEN DISASTROUS. God bless Mischief Theatre. Eleven years ago this coming May I saw THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in the tiny downstairs space at Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Evan Jackson directs and co-adapts (with Tristan Brandon) a new version of Idle Muse’s 2009 reoriented riff on “the Scottish play.” Told from the point of view of three young sisters a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:57PMTony and BAFTA Award-winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler's List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luther) star in this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PM.The Many Lives of the Great Gatsby by Elyse SommerThe theater has come back to life with almost a dozen new productions recently opening over the course of less than two weeks and with more…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:22PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Kenneth Branagh will lead a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at The Shed this coming fall, a limited 50-performance engagement of the 2023 West End production. Presented by the Kennet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMDespite his name being in the title, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is not the most celebrated character in the work. That would go to the Weird Sisters, the trio of cave-d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish dance
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMMonday, March 18, 2024
Following a critically acclaimed run at The Lyceum Edinburgh, Zinnie Harris’ Macbeth (An Undoing) comes to the Rose ahead of travelling to Theatre for a New Audience, New York, and returni…
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The site-specific production premiered in a warehouse in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London, and the U.S.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMShakespeare’s Macbeth is coming to cinemas across the UK, the US, Australia and selected international territories from 2nd May. Learn more about where to catch the production here!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Tony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony and Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star in a 2025 Broadway revival of Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Kenny L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMMonday, March 4, 2024
By Rainier Pearl-Styles. Educator Rainier Pearl-Styles recounts their experience of devising a show in response to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using tenets of Paolo Freire’s theory of liberat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:18AMThursday, February 22, 2024
He created a vibrant space for actors and playwrights that became a seedbed for the emerging Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMYaël Farber presents Shakespeare’s blistering play with bravura
Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy. …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AMSunday, February 18, 2024
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog follow their innovative Dracula and Night of the Living Dead with a version of Shelley’s classic that bolts on a contemporary story about impending parenth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, February 16, 2024
Almeida Theatre, LondonThe set is a marvel, the performances are electric and the ending – with Lear raging and trembling in a hospital gown on the heath – is profoundly tragic
Yaël Far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes now playing at Dock X in London.
This post REVIEW: Macbeth, Dock X London ✭✭✭✭ first appeared on British Theatre. Hu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:50AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Monday, February 5, 2024
The idea for the multi-media presentation now playing at Greenbelt Arts Center grew from a desire to make it possible for immunosuppressed actors to participate in theatre during Covid. The …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:06PMThursday, January 25, 2024
Max Webster’s intense production of Shakespeare’s bloody, supernatural tragedy, Macbeth, featuring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, opened to fantastic reviews at London’s Donmar Warehous…
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:02PMMonday, January 22, 2024
By Sophie McIntosh. Sophie McIntosh recounts her experience seeing Double Feature’s productions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in one Brooklyn brownstone.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:24PMSunday, January 21, 2024
The post Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:31PMFriday, January 19, 2024
The site-specific production premieres in a warehouse in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London, and the U.S.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove
Binge on Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMSunday, December 24, 2023
Donmar Warehouse; Phoenix theatre; Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
How to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied countless directors, actors, and designers over the centuries. And it’s a question th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:28AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant are among the stars playing Shakespeare’s Thane this year. Might the tragedy’s current popularity have something to do with the Tory government?
After kil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSaturday, December 16, 2023
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardin, 12/15; Photo: Coolly creepy … David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth. Photograph: Marc Brenner.) Donmar Warehouse, London The staging is …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:02PMLady Macbeth’s whispers crackle in your ear as audience members wear headphones in Max Webster’s intimate production, but the sound design can sometimes feel like a distraction
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:54PMFriday, December 15, 2023
The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones
This is the second starry adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMAll new photos have been released for Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse, starring David Tennant (Macbeth) and Cush Jumbo (Lady Macbeth). Check out the photos here!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMAudiences wear headphones in Max Webster's production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AMFriday, December 8, 2023
Audiences wear headphones in Max Webster's production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM