No literary figure inspired composers more than Shakespeare, and Giuseppe Verdi was hardly tone deaf to the musical ...

Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere six years after Justin Kurzel directed Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard ...

Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements. Armed with a sword steaming with the blood of his enemies, ...

Joel Coen’s new film “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is putting a diverse spin on the 400-year-old Shakespearean play, with Denzel Washington starring as the infamous Scottish king. Subscribe to read this ...

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth ...

A haunting new "Macbeth" at Magic Theatre in San Francisco turns Shakespeare into a modern, unsettling experience with bold staging and standout performances.

New York City of the 1970s was a scourge of epic proportions. The grime and the underbelly bubbling up from the scorching ...

Ahead of its Idaho Shakespeare Festival run, actor Cassandra Bissell and director Sara Bruner discuss reinterpreting Macbeth, ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Macbeth, Druid Theatre, Galway, Ireland★★★★☆THE peat floor of Francis O’Connor’s set still smells of damp earth as the ...

The last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses take place in this straightforward, Jacobean ...