Take a glimpse at the classic from London’s Royal Shakespeare Company.
Fran Spielman's careful analysis is illustrated by seven tiny photos of dabblers already running, and a more apt graphic could not be imagined.
Continuing our interview series of NT Live broadcasts, this month's focuses on Macbeth at the National Theatre.Directed by Rufus Norris and featuring Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff, Macbet…
Shakespearean interpretations and adaptations are not new but Antonio Pappano has stretched his creative energies well for this film. As warrior Macbeth fights alongside the king of Scotland…
Overall this is an engaging and coherent concept: Shakespearean tragedy as horror movie, with a great modern look and feel.
A LOT OF BLOOD WILL OUT Blood will have blood. It also sells tickets. And the theater's thirstiest sanguinary spectacle remains the unspeakable Scottish tragedy. The darkest doings the Bard …
For the last 412 years, "Macbeth" has been a great bear of a play to produce. I don't mean because it's boring (it's not), or suffering of a deficiency poetical (hardly), or lacking great ch…
So, Teller, what are you doing working on the Scottish play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater? "I can't think of anything more suspenseful than the murder of Duncan" says the famously taciturn …
By Douglas Mayo The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth will undertake a UK tour in 2018-19. The Macbeth UK Tour starts at the Lowry in Septe…
Despicable acts: Rosemary Waugh reviews Shostakovich's opera, based on the same short story that inspired William Oldroyd and Alice Birch's recent film. The post Review: Lady Macbeth of Mts…
Eva-Maria Westbroek is a knockout in this revival of Shostakovich's opera
Polly Findlay pulls out all the stops for her visually enticing production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Famously condemned by Stalin in 1936, Shostakovich’s graphic Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk still has the power to shock. Until the bleak final
Scandinavia's king of crime turns the tragedy into a deliciously oppressive page-turnerThe Hogarth Shakespeare project invites modern novelists to reimagine some of his most celebrated plays…
Aaron Posner and Teller also directed "The Tempest" in 2015. Then, Teller provided a variety of jaw-dropping feats for the magician Caliban.
"Macbeth" (Hogarth), by Jo Nesbo...
How do you do "Macbeth" in 2018? How do you make it fresh and new?
Macbeth Reviewed by Dana Martin Fearless Imp and CTB Productions at the McCadden Place Theatre Through April 29th There are daggers in men's smiles at the McCadden Place Theatr…
Phyllida Lloyd directs Verdi's opera with a cast including Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi, Željko LuÄić and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, running at the Royal Opera House until 10 April …
According to Operabase, Verdi's Macbeth is the 29th most performed opera, ranking higher than Cavalleria Rusticana and Salome. Perhaps with the intention of helping it climb up a few positio…
Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star as the Macbeths in this new production directed by Rufus Norris at the National Theatre until 23 June. But what have the critics had to say about it?
There is much to like and enjoy about this production of Macbeth, including inventive performances and strong ideas. However, Rufus Norris should probably play to his strengths as a director…