According to the Daily Mail, Sir Kenneth Branagh will play MacBeth in Shakespeare's tragedy at the Manchester International Festival next summer, which runs July 4-21, 2013. Rob Ashford is s…
If done properly the Scottish Play already is a gorefest. The Crook Theatre Company promises to dial that aspect up a notch in this “horror-inspired” production…and to do s…
Lyric, Belfast: The haunting publicity image is of three faceless women, swathed in plastic raincoats, standing in a gloomy underpass. And now we understand why. Lynne Parker's fascinat…
Kudos to TheMASSIVE for providing a fresh new take on a story that has been retold thousands of times over the centuries. (read more...)
Shakespeare's Globe has announced its 2013 season, which will feature three in-house productions by Shakespeare, plus world premieres of new work from playwrights Che Walker, Jessica Swale a…
Shakespeare's Globe will stage A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth next season, as well premiering new works by Che Walker, Jessica Swale and Samuel Adamson. The iconic South…
"I Bear a Charmed Life" seems to be Tom Gualtieri's Solo Macbeth: Imagine "cliff notes" that were intelligent and humorous and you get ''That Play'' a solo ''Macbeth.''
Allyn Burrows reacts to slashing something - maybe the text?I don't know why, but Macbeth seems to drive the Actors' Shakespeare Project crazy. Their last version of it was a…
Geoffrey Streatfeild makes Macbeth human without sapping him with sympathy in Daniel Evans' revival, Ian Shuttleworth writes
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Without doubt, 2012 has been the year of Macbeth. There have been Tunisian adaptations, blockbusting Polish versions set in the Middle East, a one-man show starr…
Crucible, SheffieldWe've come to expect sterling Shakespeare from Daniel Evans at the Crucible. Hamlet (featuring John Simm) and Othello (with Dominic West and Clarke Peters) were notable no…
A series of scintillating moments elevated the Crucible's 40th birthday celebration of the Bard's spooky Scottish tragedy from the merely very good to the excellent.
Stratford Shakespeare Challenge (2012): Second Place - Macbeth, Act I, Scene 7 http://stratfordshakespearefestival.com/challenge The Stratford Shakespeare Challenge invites high-school stu…
Stratford Shakespeare Challenge (2012): Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3 http://stratfordshakespearefestival.com/challenge The Stratford Shakespeare Challenge invites high-school students to perfor…
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre; Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghThree shows: one exciting and splashy, one meretricious and one a work of quiet distinction. Not a bad tally for Edinburgh…
Have the tectonic plates surreptitiously shifted? The capital of Scotland was, surely, transported last week to the avant-garde heart of continental Europe, as theatregoers at the Edinburgh …
New Haven's Elm Shakespeare Company Kicks Off Its 17 t h Season  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: William Shakespe…
(photo via Facebook)Macbeth satisfies and stuns at Monument NationalIt IS a dagger...by Rebecca UgoliniSuperstition holds that it's the play whose name dare not be spoken, but the Montreal S…
The show: William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" by the Elm Shakespeare Company, in Edgerton Park, in New Haven.
See TR Warszawa's cinematic version of Macbeth from the Edinburgh festival in full, for free, exclusively on the Guardian website
Get a taste of a festival Macbeth with a difference: performed in the ruins of a 12th-century abbey in the middle of the Firth of ForthMurdo MacLeod
Not content with the smearing of gruesome deaths and macabre psychotics already  inscribed into Shakespeare's Macbeth, former Fringe First winners Biuro Podróży have wrenched ope…
There has already been one Polish Macbeth this year at Globe to Globe (and there are two further Polish Macbeths in Edinburgh besides this one). There was also a Middle Eastern-set Macbeth a…
A former cowshed beside Edinburgh Airport is transformed into a multi-level concrete bunker. Downstairs, the faithful obey the call to prayer. Upstairs, General Duncan watches an incident un…
TR Warszawa's grandly scaled production gives a gripping sense of man buffeted by forces beyond his control, Ian Shuttleworth writes