Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The production is currently running in Washington, D.C. and will also receive a series of cinema screenings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMThe Bard was born 460 years ago today—and died exactly 52 years later in 1616. But of course his works live on even though debates about whether or not he actually wrote them do too (click…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:12PMOne of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PMMax Webster directs the Donmar Warehouse production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMMonday, April 22, 2024
In attempting to make a feminist statement out of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth", Harris has made Lady Macbeth into the same murderous monster that her husband became in the original. This does n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
The two-performance production continues Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Celebration
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Something astonishing is happening in the Brentwood neighborhood of Washington, DC—a powerful climax to Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current season, complete with pyrotechnics. An old B…
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Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . The immersive Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. this month is more than just another classical revival. Momentous in timi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:27AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Acclaimed director Sam Gold will adapt the Shakespeare tragedy with new music from hitmaker and Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff
West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper bre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMThursday, April 11, 2024
Writer/director Zinnie Harris cracks open the Scottish play to focus on the women within it. Loren Noveck reviews.
The post Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center appear…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:33PMIn Zinnie Harris’s play, Lady Macbeth gets tangled in her own unraveling.
The post <em>Macbeth (An Undoing)</em> Review: When Undoing Is an Understatement appeared first on Sla…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:04PM★★☆☆☆ Zinnie Harris is the problematic playwright as well as the much more adept director of this ill-advised project
The post Macbeth (an undoing): The Shakespeare Classic Undone…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:50PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
The two-performance production will continue Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Celebration
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMThe site-specific production will receive a series of cinema screenings later this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Stephen Moyer from True Blood and Tony Award winner Miriam Silverman star in MACBETH for Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Festival. Directed by Nathan Winkelstein, the play features a str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMAustin Durant will return to the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge! in the role of Harold Zidler beginning May 14. Hailee Kaleem Wright joins alongside him as the new Satine Alternate. Durant …
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A rare cinematic event is coming to New York theatres for only two days: Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth. The Daily Telegraph calls the film, “full-voltage visceral,” while The Times o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:23PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
New productions of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” follow a French tradition of adapting familiar works. The results are innovative, and sometimes cryptic.
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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good. Macbeth, the…
The post MACBETH (Quintessence): Onstage ma…
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Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonFun songs and exciting immersive touches delight children and adults alike in a lively picture book adaptation from actor Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
A promotional note from Quintessence Theatre Group artistic director Alex Burns about why he’s staging an “all-male” Macbeth drew a strong response from the Philly theater community. B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:58PMQuintessence Theatre Group stages a blockbuster Macbeth with an expanded script and an all-male cast, thrilling even when its reach exceeds its grasp. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PMPodcast host Darnelle Radford sits down with Quintessence Theatre Group artistic director Alex Burns to talk about his new production of Macbeth.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:56PMSunday, March 24, 2024
MAGIC . ALWAYS BETTER WHEN DISASTROUS. God bless Mischief Theatre. Eleven years ago this coming May I saw THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in the tiny downstairs space at Trafalgar S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Evan Jackson directs and co-adapts (with Tristan Brandon) a new version of Idle Muse’s 2009 reoriented riff on “the Scottish play.” Told from the point of view of three young sisters a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:57PMTony and BAFTA Award-winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler's List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luther) star in this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PM.The Many Lives of the Great Gatsby by Elyse SommerThe theater has come back to life with almost a dozen new productions recently opening over the course of less than two weeks and with more…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:22PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Kenneth Branagh will lead a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at The Shed this coming fall, a limited 50-performance engagement of the 2023 West End production. Presented by the Kennet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMDespite his name being in the title, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is not the most celebrated character in the work. That would go to the Weird Sisters, the trio of cave-d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish dance
Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMMonday, March 18, 2024
Following a critically acclaimed run at The Lyceum Edinburgh, Zinnie Harris’ Macbeth (An Undoing) comes to the Rose ahead of travelling to Theatre for a New Audience, New York, and returni…
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The site-specific production premiered in a warehouse in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London, and the U.S.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMShakespeare’s Macbeth is coming to cinemas across the UK, the US, Australia and selected international territories from 2nd May. Learn more about where to catch the production here!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Tony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony and Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star in a 2025 Broadway revival of Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Kenny L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMMonday, March 4, 2024
By Rainier Pearl-Styles. Educator Rainier Pearl-Styles recounts their experience of devising a show in response to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using tenets of Paolo Freire’s theory of liberat…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:18AMThursday, February 22, 2024
He created a vibrant space for actors and playwrights that became a seedbed for the emerging Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMYaël Farber presents Shakespeare’s blistering play with bravura
Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy. …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:48AM