As the joke goes, anybody could have written Shakespeare's plays because they're just one famous quote after another. "Macbeth" is certainly like that, full of familiar nuggets, and it may a…
The Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's Shakespearean tragedy "Macbeth," starring soprano Anna Netrebko, will be shown as part of The Met Live in HD series at area theaters on Oct. 15,…
There’s a superstition in the theater world that saying the word “Macbeth” in a theater will lead to something bad happening to the production, rumored because real witches cursed the …
Daniel Buckroyd's new production of "Macbeth" proves to be an illuminating experience.
It is very ambitious of the National Youth Theatre REP Company to stage one of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays with such a young cast of performers, but I thoroughly applaud their e…
Following on from Selfie and Private Peaceful, Macbeth is the third production from the National Youth Theatre Rep Company
Ambassadors Theatre, London: Director Ed Hughes gives his necessarily youthful reading of Macbeth for the National Youth Theatre an arresting opening that could have come straight out of the…
The Criterion Collection recently released a newly remastered edition of acclaimed director Roman Polanski's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy MACBETH and a new clip of…
Free Shakespeare is a noble idea and I admire Revolution Shakespeare's commitment to making its productions available to the public, a public willing to sit on blankets in a dark park on a c…
Sometimes you just have to say "Macbeth."
Violent, blood-soaked and filled with nudity, Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of "Macbeth" was intended to be a cinematic jolt -- a raw, realistic portrayal of medieval power plays that w…
The remastered Criterion Collection Blu-ray debut of master director Roman Polanski's acclaimed and controversial adaptation of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy MACBETH is now available.
A new featurette showcasing the Blu-ray debut of master director Roman Polanski's adaptation of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy MACBETH is now available to view.
Controversial South African director Brett Bailey and his company clash cultures together at the Barbican this month as they present Verdi's Macbeth, reimagined in the troubled region of Eas…
This stripped-down version of Verdi's opera is inspired, says Rupert Christiansen
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VIDEO WILL OUT Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy becomes, appropriately, a 115-minute, one-act opera by Ernest Bloch, a dour offering first produced in 1910 at the Opera-Comique in Paris.…
As far as most operatic buffs are concerned, there is only one musical setting of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" " the revised 1865 version of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece.
The Scottish king belts out the Bard in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy for The Theatre Project.
The curse of Macbeth hits again in Filters painfully minimalist production at the Tobacco Factory.
A free screening of Folger Theatre‘s 2008 magical production of Macbeth will take place on Saturday, August 23 at 8:15 pm at the Carter Barron Ampitheatre in Rock Creek Park. No …
Macbeth, a classic Shakespearean tale of one man's quest for Scotland's reign and the lengths he is willing to go for it, is often performed melodramatically with flawed characters that pass…
Lady Margaret Hall Gardens, Oxford: While the setting is glorious - almost overwhelmingly so - and the script is leaner and meaner than many a Macbeth, Jonathan Holloway's new productio…
Another opening, another show. Another "Macbeth," another "King Lear." Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ...