Tuesday, March 26, 2024

As a trans actor, I’m dismayed by the “testosterone-driven” concept of the all-male Macbeth at Quintessence by Bruce Baldini

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 08:58PM

Quintessence Theatre Group presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Kiran Pandey

Quintessence 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 05:34PM

The BSR Podcast, Season 8, Episode 3: Talking with Quintessence director Alex Burns about his all-male Macbeth by Darnelle Radford

Podcast 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 12:56PM
Sunday, March 24, 2024

MIND MANGLER Apollo, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

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 04:01PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024

The Scottish play, remixed by Dmitry Samarov

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 02:57PM

MACBETH With Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma Coming to Cinemas

Tony 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 Sommer

.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 02:22PM
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Kenneth Branagh to Lead King Lear at The Shed in Fall 2024 by Hayley Levitt

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 02:18PM

Something Wicked: A Review of “What the Weird Sisters Saw” at Idle Muse Theatre Company by Tristan Bruns

Despite 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 08:00AM
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

‘It’s a beehive’: Tero Saarinen’s mighty Macbeth puts Helsinki’s first dance house on the map by Chris Wiegand

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 12:06PM
Monday, March 18, 2024

Macbeth (An Undoing) | Meet the creative team by Official London Theatre

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…

SOURCE: YouTube at 05:45AM
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Macbeth, Starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma, to Play Cinemas by Margaret Hall

The site-specific production premiered in a warehouse in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London, and the U.S.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM

MACBETH With Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma is Coming to Cinemas

Shakespeare’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 08:24AM
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in Othello on Broadway by Darryn King

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 11:36AM
Monday, March 4, 2024

Recasting, Restorying, and Restructuring Shakespeare for Liberation by Rainier Pearl-Styles

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 11:18AM
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Robert Macbeth, Founder of Harlem’s New Lafayette Theater, Dies at 89 by Clay Risen

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 02:36PM

King Lear, Almeida Theatre review - Danny Sapani dazzles in this spartan tragedy by Mert Dilek

Yaël 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 06:48AM
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Frankenstein review – muscular but ungainly update has visible stitching by Nick Ahad

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 06:42AM
Friday, February 16, 2024

King Lear review – Yaël Farber’s modern-dress take is shockingly vicious and supremely moving by Arifa Akbar

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 10:54AM

REVIEW: Macbeth, Dock X London ✭✭✭✭ by Paul T Davies

By 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 07:50AM
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Monday, February 5, 2024

Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’ presented by the Rude Mechanicals at The Greenbelt Arts Center by Sue Tilberry

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 12:06PM
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Bruno Poet Works Magic with Ayrton Khamsin TC for ‘Macbeth’ at London’s Donmar Warehouse by Michael Eddy

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 10:02PM
Monday, January 22, 2024

Care, Collectivism, Midsummer, and Macbeth by Sophie McIntosh

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 02:24PM
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence

The post Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:31PM
Friday, January 19, 2024

Photos: Get a Closer Look at Macbeth Starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma by Margaret Hall

The site-specific production premieres in a warehouse in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London, and the U.S.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024

The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more by Chris Wiegand

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 01:18AM
Sunday, December 24, 2023

The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review by Susannah Clapp

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 06:42AM
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse by Mert Dilek

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 12:28AM
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Sound and fury, signifying something: what made Macbeth so popular in 2023? by Mark Lawson

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 10:12AM
Saturday, December 16, 2023

***** ‘MACBETH’ REVIEW – DAVID TENNANT THRILLS IN THIS HIGH-CONCEPT PRODUCTION by Robert Shuman

(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 02:02PM

Macbeth review: David Tennant is a compellingly intense Scottish king in Donmar’s show of sonic trickery by Alice Saville

Lady 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 12:54PM
Friday, December 15, 2023

Macbeth review – David Tennant thrills in this high concept production by Arifa Akbar

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 07:18PM

Photos: First Look at David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in MACBETH

All 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 09:34AM

Donmar Warehouse Macbeth, Starring Cush Jumbo and David Tennant, Opens December 15 by Andrew Gans

Audiences wear headphones in Max Webster's production of the Shakespeare tragedy.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM
Friday, December 8, 2023

Donmar Warehouse Macbeth, Starring Cush Jumbo and David Tennant, Begins December 8 by Andrew Gans

Audiences wear headphones in Max Webster's production of the Shakespeare tragedy.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM

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