His bold take on Shakespeare's tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa's collaborators remember how he enthralled and…
The tragedy is interpreted by director Robert O'Hara as a study in machismo, male relationships and what it means to be a man.
"Macbeth Muet" is a frolic through tragedy with puppetry, while "Makbet" is a darkly gregarious production (shots included).
Since its premiere in Walcot Street in October 1977, 'Elsie and Norm's Macbeth' has been, and still is, continually performed all over the world and a number of famous names have taken the t…
In this week’s production news, Christopher Eccleston is to make his debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company next summer playing the title role
Christopher Eccleston is to make his debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company next summer playing the title role in Macbeth opposite Niamh
Erica Whyman will also direct a new musical about Joan Littlewood by Sam Kenyon
A post-apocalyptic version of Macbeth is being staged in the Bussey Building in Peckham, London. Devil You Know Theatre Company will present
Sydney Theatre CompanyWeaving is faultless in a production that turns Shakespeare's play around and confirms Kip Williams as a major directing talentThe risks of this production are there fr…
Macbeth is Australia's most performed Shakespearean play " so pity theatre critics like Jane Howard who don't enjoy it As a theatre critic it's important to not decide on a work before you s…
The many faces of Lady Macbeth: Rosemary Waugh reviews an artful exploration of Shakespeare's shadowy matriarch. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here at Dance Base …
A curiously uneven production of Verdi's opera
The Edinburgh International Festival opened its opera offering in 1947 with Verdi’s magnificent Macbeth, so it is only fitting that Emma Dante’s
A plot to murder a member of the royal family takes centre stage in the debut run of the tragic comedy Macbeth kills The Duchess.
It will be breathless. It will be bloody. It will be bold. State Theatre Company brings one of Shakespeare's greatest dramas to the Dunstan Playhouse stage, exploring its commonalities wi…
Festival theatre, EdinburghThis new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and striking imagery backed by a richly nuanced account of Verdi's score Verdi's take on the Scottish…
Outstanding performances led by Florence Pugh in the title role
Lady Macbeth doesn't get the stage time and death scene she deserves; in the play, her apparent suicide is merely reported to
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements,” Lady Macbeth exclaims, gesturing triumphantly at the sky. A particularly loud helicop…
By Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, August 14, 2017 As someone who frequents the theatre, I'm accustomed to taking my seat and remaining there for two hours, maybe longer. This isn't exact…