Friday, July 11, 2025

“Leaping Lizards!” Stratford Festival Extends Four Fantastic and Celebrated Productions by Ross

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Stratford Festival Extends Annie, Macbeth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Anne of Green Gables July 2025… The Stratford Festival announces the extension of its …

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 12:41AM
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Macbeth — Extended to November 22 | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

"Cinematic, inventive, and captivating from start to finish" (BroadwayWorld), Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "a towering achievement" (Postmedia) and now extended by three weeks, until November …

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:24PM

29th International Shakespeare Festival runs in n Gdańsk (Poland) from 25 July to 3 August by Kasia Lech

Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland, will be showcased as part of the 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, running …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:47PM
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Stratford Festival offers theatrical roller coaster by Alan Smason

By LOU HARRY You don’t need to go to an amusement park to have the feeling of riding a roller coaster. In Stratford, Ontario, you can acquire something akin to whiplash at a festival where…

SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:34PM

2025 Season Extended | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

📢 BIG NEWS: our 2025 season is extended! 🎉 The Globe and Mail were "gobsmacked by the strength of this year’s opening week", and with overwhelming audience demand, we're thrilled to …

SOURCE: YouTube at 04:02PM

Shakespeare Festival in Ukraine Goes On Despite War

According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to dem…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Interview: Courtney McManus on Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence at Assembly George Square by Greg Stewart

Courtney McManus brings Shakespeare to the sports court in Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence, a bold and hilarious reimagining of the classic tragedy set in the high-stakes world of school n…

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 03:39PM
Monday, June 23, 2025

People You Should Know . . . Pamela L. Paek by Zack Calhoon

  Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle, including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical co…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:54PM
Friday, June 20, 2025

Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: All's Well That Ends Well by The Old Globe

Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportu…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:40AM

Experience the magic of Shakespeare at The Old Globe with All's Well That Ends Well by The Old Globe

Shakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-…

SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

LIGHTS OUT is Unforgettable! by New York Theatre Workshop

EXTENDED RUN through JUNE 29 only! Tickets and more at https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat ‘King’ Cole…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:57PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

AMAZING! Tenor Discovers “Macbeth” Isn’t the Only Word You Can Get in Trouble for Saying by Broadway Beat

by Phin Samdperil. TOLEDO, OH — Braden Slater, a high school junior at the Toledo School For the Arts, has earned a one-week suspension...

SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AM
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Motorcycles, Mayhem, and Macbeth Rides Strong, Reving its Engines on the Dark Streets of Stratford by Ross

Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s not the beginning that was expec…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:00AM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Macbeth, Alice in Wonderland and The Dream Fairies Come to Kew Gardens This Summer by Staff Writer

The Australian Shakespeare Company is set to return to the stunning grounds of Kew Gardens this summer with a trio of magical productions

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:25AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Henry V, Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth and More Announced in RSC’s Ambitious 2025/26 Season by Staff Writer

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its 2025/26 season, promising a bold and globally inspired programme of productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and beyond

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 08:53AM

Edinburgh Fringe Preview: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence at Assembly George Square (Studio One) by Staff Writer

Fresh from their award-winning run at the Adelaide Fringe, Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence is powering onto the courts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:51AM
Friday, May 30, 2025

Motorcycles, Mayhem, and Macbeth Rides Strong, Reving its Engines on the Dark Streets of Stratford by Ross

The Stratford Festival Theatre Review: Shakespeare’s Macbeth By Ross Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the ci…

SOURCE: front mezz junkies at 07:00AM
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Macbeth (Official Trailer) | Stratford Festival 2025 by Stratford Festival

Rev your engines for Macbeth! Here's a first look at Shakespeare's tragedy told through the lens of a motorcycle gang in Robert Lepage's bold retelling. You don't want to miss this, get y…

SOURCE: YouTube at 07:02PM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Scarlett Strallen Steps in to the Cast of STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S OLD FRIENDS

Two-time Olivier Award nominee Scarlett Strallen will temporarily replace Kate Jennings Grant in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. Grant will be stepping away from the production for approxi…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth by Lewis Packwood

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Cannes film festival is…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Eldritch’s “Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot” Magically Tricks Us Fiendishly and Freshly by Ross

The Toronto Theatre Review: Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot By Ross The haze floats up, slyly, behind a demented looking Tiki Bar set-up, perfect for supernatural potions served forth by th…

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Friday, May 9, 2025

Sierra Boggess and More to Lead Taylor Mac's PROSPEROUS FOOLS at TFANA

Theatre for a New Audience will present Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools (June 1–29), directed by Darko Tresnjak. Prosperous Fools, very loosely inspired by Moliere’s 17TH Century classic…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PM
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Rialto Chatter: Could Saoirse Ronan and Andrew Scott Be Next for the Abbey Theatre Stage?

With Paul Mescal officially set to star in a 2027 production of A Whistle in the Dark,a co-production between London’s National Theatre and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre,industry chatter sugges…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM
Friday, May 2, 2025

Coriolanus (Film Clip) | STRATFEST@HOME by Stratford Festival

Powerful together. Excitement is building for Macbeth, with Tom McCamus in the titular role opposite Lucy Peacock's Lady Macbeth. This is not the first time these two powerhouse actors have …

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:12PM

Macbeth review – something wicked this way whizzes as dynamic duo play all the roles by Andrew Pulver

Oxford PlayhouseThere is one 24-carat scene after another as a cast of two switch from bloodthirsty to comedic without toil or trouble A significant scattering of teenagers attend this show …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

‘The Death of Rasputin’: Don’t go Russian to the new immersive show on Governors Island (Off Broadway review) by Thom Geier

Has the immersive theater bubble popped? Sleep No More, the elaborate theatrical experience mashing up Macbeth and film noir over five meticulously curated floors of a warehouse in New York�…

SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 08:00PM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Ismenia Mendes | Red Bull Theater Podcast by Red Bull Theater

ISMENIA MENDES joined host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on Lady Macbeth–a role that she played to great acclaim in our 2019 prod…

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:44AM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Colman Domingo & Patricia reflect on Nat King Cole's legacy in LIGHTS OUT: NAT "KING" COLE by New York Theatre Workshop

"He ran his leg of the race so that we can now run ours." GET TICKETS: https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat…

SOURCE: YouTube at 02:21PM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Michael Patrick Thornton Joins Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Waiting for Godot on Broadway as Lucky by Darryn King

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and directed by Jamie Lloyd, has cast its Lucky. Michael Patrick Thornton, who uses a wheelchair since suffering t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

‘Macbeth in Stride’ Review: A Leap and Stumble Into a Classic by Maya Phillips

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AM

IMPRESSIONS: Whitney White's "Macbeth in Stride" at BAM Harvey Theater by The Dance Enthusiast

"Methinks the lady doth protest just enough: Rocking the house at BAM, Whitney White rips up the script of MacBeth, performing it as a hip-hop, gospel spectacle with Shakepeare’s verse wov…

SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM