NIGHT SIDE SONGS, a new musical that explores how song heals us and empowers our spirits, is now in performances at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater. With a stirring folk score by the acclaimed duo The Lazours (We Li…

Why are actors told to break a leg? Why is Macbeth called The Scottish Play inside a theater? Why can’t you whistle in a theater? What is the ghost light all about? In honor of Friday the 13th today — which…

Hull TruckIn a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvisation. It is a trage…

NIGHT SIDE SONGS is about the small human connections that make up the vast tapestry of our lives. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s insight that “illness is the night side of life,” this transformative new musi…

Stage and screen legend Ian McKellen sat down with Stephen Colbert during a recent episode of The Late Show for an extended interview covering his long career as a performer. Currently appearing in An Ark at…

The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonWhitney White’s thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare’s great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy women It’s tempting t…

Crucible, SheffieldThe supernatural is all-encompassing in Oladipo Agboluaje’s reframing of Shakespeare’s power play in 19th-century west Africa Every time the court historian turns up, he has a new list of…

White has been on an unstoppable journey directing new American plays that have both challenged and expanded the theatrical landscape. From her early production, OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD, through her transformat…

Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of “A Doll’s House,” a “Macbeth”-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small.

NIGHT SIDE SONGS, a new musical that explores how song heals us and empowers our spirits, begins performances at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater on February 14, 2026. With a stirring folk score by the acclaimed duo …

NIGHT SIDE SONGS is about the small human connections that make up the vast tapestry of our lives. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s insight that “illness is the night side of life,” this transformative new musi…

In All Is But Fantasy, the fates of Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra and more are given a thrilling twist by US writer, director and singer Whitney White. She talks about untimely deaths – and being left speec…

A full cast has been confirmed for Macbeth, which will take to the Storyhouse stage from Friday 6 March to Saturday 21 March 2026 The post Macbeth Announces Full Casting for Storyhouse Originals Production appe…

Shattering the illusion of the American dream, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a classic that demands to be seen. Tom McCamus and Lucy Peacock reunite as Willy and Linda Loman, channeling the fierce, mag…

At its core, “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is a psychological thriller. It explores the question; once a man intentionally kills another, when does he stop killing and how does he respond emotionally to …

Please join us to learn more about this year's Signature in the Schools play from Director of Education David Zobell and Playwright Dani Stoller. Join us to meet our student cast and crew of high schoolers who…

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Renowned director and teacher CARL COFIELD — Chair of the NYU Grad Acting Program and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem — joins host Nathan Winkelstein for a deep dive into how …

Starting with Macbeth, online platform using rehearsal-based teaching methods aims to transform study of the Bard Act 1. Scene 1. A classroom in a secondary school in Peterborough. It is a dreary, wet afternoon…

In opening scenes three Weird Sisters, witches, brew evil in a pot using scarce ingredients like eye of newt. They cherry pick the future for Macbeth with oracular accuracy, giving over the goods while leaving…

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an enthralling new stage adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 short story of the same name. Gilman’s original narrative is written as a series of diary entries by a woman …

The Toronto Theatre Review: The Far Side of the Moon at Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto By Ross Robert Lepage, who masterfully brought motorcycles and mayhem to his Stratford Festival production of Macbeth, has lo…

As the company enters its fourth decade, the Lantern Theater’s Macbeth lacks ideas and excitement. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Broadway veteran Michael Patrick Thornton won’t keep you waiting. Waiting for Godot's Lucky spoke to Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek about the new production directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring …

★★★★ MACBETH, RSC STRATFORD Feuding Thanes rut, with echoes of Glasgow and Belfast  Sam Heughan's Macbeth cannot quite find a home in a mobster pub It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s so very dif…

Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

"Quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" The chilling moment when Macbeth is haunted by Banquo's ghost. Shakespeare's tragedy is the perfect play for spooky season, and “Robert Lepage’s Macbeth is impressi…

A brand-new trailer has been released for the first ever UK & Ireland tour of Aaron Sorkin’s riveting stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the seminal American novel about racial injusti…

After killing Duncan, Macbeth is afraid to think what he's done and Lady Macbeth must take matters into her own hands to cover their tracks. There's just 13 performances left of Macbeth! Get your tickets now t…

  (Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian 10/22/25; Photo: Sinister sisters … Irene Macdougall, Eilidh Fisher and Alison Peebles. Photograph: Helen Murra) The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Danie…

The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show Audiences arriving to find the RSC’s…

The Stratford Theatre Review: Spontaneous Theatre’s Goblin:Oedipus By Ross It was exactly as expected, the night I arrived at Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre for the opening night of Goblin:Oedipus, Spo…

Comedian and actor John Leguizamo’s "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to be an impressive dy…

Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "a towering achievement" with "one of the most impressive sets to ever dominate a Stratford Festival stage" (Postmedia). Watch as Macbeth's motel comes together before your very eyes …

By Alix Cohen Inspired by the illustrations of Edward Gorey, Victorian reverie, ill-fated romance, calamitous croquet, and the dangers of windy cliffs. “The world is full of people who are not quite right.”…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that John Woodvine, a longtime star of the stage and screen, has passed away at the age of 96. In a career that spanned six decades, the performer appeared in more than 70 pr…

218 West 57th Street, New York An immersive, experiential reworking of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical turns it into something resembling a mostly fun theme park ride Anyone put off by the theme-pa…

After hearing the prophecy of the weird witches, Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss what it all means at a later time. Reimagined during the Quebec biker wars of the 1990s, Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "engagin…

A ghostly transformation. 👻 See how Graham Abbey quick changes in Macbeth. Playing the role of Banquo, he rushes off-stage after his character's gruesome death to become a ghost, with a new costume, wig and …

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced full casting for Daniel Raggett’s sell-out production of Macbeth, which runs at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon The post Full Casting Announced for RSC’s M…

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence at Assembly George Square "dazzles visually but struggles to marry Shakespeare with schoolyard drama” The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth P…

Vivien Lyra Blair, known for her role as Princess Leia in Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series, has joined the cast of MattBeth, a new reimagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth from directors Matthew Vlahakis an…

E22: Why are audiences so captivated by characters who blur (or outright cross) the moral line? In this episode, theatre critic Chris Jones is joined by veteran Festival actors Tom McCamus and Jonathan Goad for…

Producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams, Mindy Rich), Barbara Whitman and Alan Cumming are thrilled to announce full casting for the new musical Ceilidh [KAY-lee], based on one of Scotland’s oldest and m…

A rollercoaster of emotion! A great joy of repertory theatre can be found in the reverberations amongst the shows. As the New York Times reflected: "After you see two or three [productions at the Stratford Fes…

At this year’s Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the south.

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score A spate of Macbeths will hit the Edinburgh festival …

E21: We kick off the 2025 season of the Everyday Forum Podcast with a lively chat with cultural commentator Stephen Marche. He talks with the Festival's Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino, and André Sills, act…

Mick Lally theatre, GalwayTo mark their 50th anniversary, Druid Theatre Company pair Shakespeare with JM Synge’s stark one-act tragedy Marking 50 years of exceptional theatre-making, Druid Theatre Company pre…

Why see As You Like It now? 🎧 Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, in a newly released podcast, tells us how this play will give us the hope we are looking for. The plotline of As You Like It runs almost in pa…

Martin Professional’s MAC Viper XIP lighting fixtures made their debut theatrical performance at this year’s Shakespeare in the Park Singapore, bringing a bold and atmospheric visual dimension to the critic…

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 deliciously energeti…

"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 22! Reimagined in t…

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 from 25 July to 3 Au…

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 you can see a bruta…

📢 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 be extending four pr…

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 demand the release of U…

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 netball

  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 comedy, and clown. P…

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 opportunity to closely conn…

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-season/alls-well-tha…

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 Show.” Despite b…

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

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 expected in this Shakespe…

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

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

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

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 cinematic scene with a…

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 your tickets: https:/…

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 approximately two weeks due…

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 isn’t typically asso…

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 the three stacked witc…

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 Le Bourgeois gentil…

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 suggests the Abbey is now …

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 shared the stage. In…

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 by Out of Chaos, not…