Articles about Macbeth
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This production clearly has hard workers on its side, but the relocation of the story to 12th century Japan (Kamakura Period) is overwrought and inconsistent.
There's nothing to concentrate your mind like a good theatrical scare - and the Irish are better at it than most
Wilma Theatre, the resident Philadelphia company known for its stagings of contemporary plays, presents its first Shakespeare production, Macbeth -- with CJ Wilson and Jacqueline Antaramian …
When stoking his intent to kill a king, Macbeth reflects that he has "only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself." Much the same might be said of ShakespeareNYC's production of the Scott…
As “Radio Macbeth” unfolds in a kind of theatrical alchemy, this play within a play becomes simply the play — the Scottish one.
GONE are the kimonos, the butsudan (a Buddhist altar to the dead) and the references to Edo-era civil wars. In their place are battlefields reminiscent of Vietnam or Cambodia, not Scotland or Japan. And there are also mirrors — lots of them — a device designed to reflect the duality of everyday life.
These are the latest innovations of Japan's best-known classical theater director, Yukio Ninagawa, who is bringing his latest production of "Macbeth" to Brooklyn this week.
Patrick Stewart is starring in a new Macbeth on Broadway. It's a Macbeth on steroids. There are enough jolts and shocks in director Rupert Goold's flashy—and surprisingly long—transfer from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to make you feel as if your seat is directly connected to the theater's electrical system.
Macbeth contains some of the deepest and darkest poetry in all of Shakespeare, and the sheer perversity of deleting every last syllable of it no doubt held special appeal for the cheeky arti…
When Britain's Eddie Izzard made his Broadway debut this year in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg," he surprised many with his dramatic turn in the Peter Nichols play about a couple coping wit…
A high-speed, stylized Macbeth at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Question: How do you transform a play that's been done and done and done into a provocative, brand-new experience? Answer: Have Rupert Goold, London's most imaginative young Shakespeare inte…
