After killing Duncan, Macbeth is afraid to think what he's done and Lady Macbeth must take matters into her own hands to cover their tracks. There's just 13 performances left of Macbeth! Get your tickets now t…

  (Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian 10/22/25; Photo: Sinister sisters … Irene Macdougall, Eilidh Fisher and Alison Peebles. Photograph: Helen Murra) The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Danie…

The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show Audiences arriving to find the RSC’s…

The Stratford Theatre Review: Spontaneous Theatre’s Goblin:Oedipus By Ross It was exactly as expected, the night I arrived at Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre for the opening night of Goblin:Oedipus, Spo…

Comedian and actor John Leguizamo’s "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to be an impressive dy…

Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "a towering achievement" with "one of the most impressive sets to ever dominate a Stratford Festival stage" (Postmedia). Watch as Macbeth's motel comes together before your very eyes …

By Alix Cohen Inspired by the illustrations of Edward Gorey, Victorian reverie, ill-fated romance, calamitous croquet, and the dangers of windy cliffs. “The world is full of people who are not quite right.”…

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that John Woodvine, a longtime star of the stage and screen, has passed away at the age of 96. In a career that spanned six decades, the performer appeared in more than 70 pr…

218 West 57th Street, New York An immersive, experiential reworking of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical turns it into something resembling a mostly fun theme park ride Anyone put off by the theme-pa…

After hearing the prophecy of the weird witches, Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss what it all means at a later time. Reimagined during the Quebec biker wars of the 1990s, Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "engagin…

A ghostly transformation. 👻 See how Graham Abbey quick changes in Macbeth. Playing the role of Banquo, he rushes off-stage after his character's gruesome death to become a ghost, with a new costume, wig and …

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced full casting for Daniel Raggett’s sell-out production of Macbeth, which runs at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon The post Full Casting Announced for RSC’s M…

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence at Assembly George Square "dazzles visually but struggles to marry Shakespeare with schoolyard drama” The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth P…

Vivien Lyra Blair, known for her role as Princess Leia in Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series, has joined the cast of MattBeth, a new reimagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth from directors Matthew Vlahakis an…

E22: Why are audiences so captivated by characters who blur (or outright cross) the moral line? In this episode, theatre critic Chris Jones is joined by veteran Festival actors Tom McCamus and Jonathan Goad for…

Producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams, Mindy Rich), Barbara Whitman and Alan Cumming are thrilled to announce full casting for the new musical Ceilidh [KAY-lee], based on one of Scotland’s oldest and m…

A rollercoaster of emotion! A great joy of repertory theatre can be found in the reverberations amongst the shows. As the New York Times reflected: "After you see two or three [productions at the Stratford Fes…

At this year’s Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the south.

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence combines comedy, songs and athleticism as a young netball player reckons with her own ambitions against an electro-pop score A spate of Macbeths will hit the Edinburgh festival …

E21: We kick off the 2025 season of the Everyday Forum Podcast with a lively chat with cultural commentator Stephen Marche. He talks with the Festival's Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino, and André Sills, act…

Mick Lally theatre, GalwayTo mark their 50th anniversary, Druid Theatre Company pair Shakespeare with JM Synge’s stark one-act tragedy Marking 50 years of exceptional theatre-making, Druid Theatre Company pre…

Why see As You Like It now? 🎧 Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, in a newly released podcast, tells us how this play will give us the hope we are looking for. The plotline of As You Like It runs almost in pa…

Martin Professional’s MAC Viper XIP lighting fixtures made their debut theatrical performance at this year’s Shakespeare in the Park Singapore, bringing a bold and atmospheric visual dimension to the critic…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: The Stratford Festival Extends Annie, Macbeth, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Anne of Green Gables July 2025… The Stratford Festival announces the extension of its deliciously energeti…

"Cinematic, inventive, and captivating from start to finish" (BroadwayWorld), Robert Lepage's Macbeth is "a towering achievement" (Postmedia) and now extended by three weeks, until November 22! Reimagined in t…

Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland, will be showcased as part of the 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, running from 25 July to 3 Au…

By LOU HARRY You don’t need to go to an amusement park to have the feeling of riding a roller coaster. In Stratford, Ontario, you can acquire something akin to whiplash at a festival where you can see a bruta…

📢 BIG NEWS: our 2025 season is extended! 🎉 The Globe and Mail were "gobsmacked by the strength of this year’s opening week", and with overwhelming audience demand, we're thrilled to be extending four pr…

According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to demand the release of U…

Courtney McManus brings Shakespeare to the sports court in Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence, a bold and hilarious reimagining of the classic tragedy set in the high-stakes world of school netball

  Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle, including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical comedy, and clown. P…

Director Peter Francis James joins The Old Globe's Kim Heil to discuss Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide Globe patrons with an opportunity to closely conn…

Shakespeare's witty comedy opens the 2025 Shakespeare Festival, directed by Peter Francis James, and running June 8 through July 6, 2025. Find tickets at https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-season/alls-well-tha…

EXTENDED RUN through JUNE 29 only! Tickets and more at https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat ‘King’ Cole Show.” Despite b…

by Phin Samdperil. TOLEDO, OH — Braden Slater, a high school junior at the Toledo School For the Arts, has earned a one-week suspension...

Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s not the beginning that was expected in this Shakespe…

The Australian Shakespeare Company is set to return to the stunning grounds of Kew Gardens this summer with a trio of magical productions

The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its 2025/26 season, promising a bold and globally inspired programme of productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and beyond

Fresh from their award-winning run at the Adelaide Fringe, Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence is powering onto the courts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Stratford Festival Theatre Review: Shakespeare’s Macbeth By Ross Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a…

Rev your engines for Macbeth! Here's a first look at Shakespeare's tragedy told through the lens of a motorcycle gang in Robert Lepage's bold retelling. You don't want to miss this, get your tickets: https:/…

Two-time Olivier Award nominee Scarlett Strallen will temporarily replace Kate Jennings Grant in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. Grant will be stepping away from the production for approximately two weeks due…

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Cannes film festival isn’t typically asso…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot By Ross The haze floats up, slyly, behind a demented looking Tiki Bar set-up, perfect for supernatural potions served forth by the three stacked witc…

Theatre for a New Audience will present Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools (June 1–29), directed by Darko Tresnjak. Prosperous Fools, very loosely inspired by Moliere’s 17TH Century classic Le Bourgeois gentil…

With Paul Mescal officially set to star in a 2027 production of A Whistle in the Dark,a co-production between London’s National Theatre and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre,industry chatter suggests the Abbey is now …

Powerful together. Excitement is building for Macbeth, with Tom McCamus in the titular role opposite Lucy Peacock's Lady Macbeth. This is not the first time these two powerhouse actors have shared the stage. In…

Oxford PlayhouseThere is one 24-carat scene after another as a cast of two switch from bloodthirsty to comedic without toil or trouble A significant scattering of teenagers attend this show by Out of Chaos, not…

Has the immersive theater bubble popped? Sleep No More, the elaborate theatrical experience mashing up Macbeth and film noir over five meticulously curated floors of a warehouse in New York’s West Chelsea nei…

ISMENIA MENDES joined host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on Lady Macbeth–a role that she played to great acclaim in our 2019 production of MAC BETH. …

"He ran his leg of the race so that we can now run ours." GET TICKETS: https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat ‘King’ Cole Sho…

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and directed by Jamie Lloyd, has cast its Lucky. Michael Patrick Thornton, who uses a wheelchair since suffering two spinal strokes at…

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

"Methinks the lady doth protest just enough: Rocking the house at BAM, Whitney White rips up the script of MacBeth, performing it as a hip-hop, gospel spectacle with Shakepeare’s verse woven in, while alterna…

Whitney White is a multi-hyphenated theatrical powerhouse, but this fusion of Shakespeare and pop concert doesn't gel. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Macbeth in Stride at BAM Harvey appeared first on Ex…

The director-performer has overseen four shows this season, many of them about love and ambition, while balancing family.

Ava Roy Adapts the Bard to Seaside Civil War Landmark  by A.J. Jefferson “And what seem’d corporal melted / As breath into the wind…”  A blustery Pacific gale buffets us at We Players’ “Macbeth”…

There’s nothing particularly new about reframing William Shakespeare’s Scottish play around the hero’s notoriously ruthless and manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Zinnie Harris’s Macbeth (An Undoing), whi…

For artist Whitney White, staying open to change is essential The director, actor and musician shares what she takes with her to a performance, what makes her day better and what she finds essential to being an…

Take in Shakespeare, experimental theater and a three-play series on the fallout of Brexit, all available to watch at home.

The celebrated actor has long struggled with the murder and dismemberment at the heart of Titus Andronicus. Now, at 64, he is finally tackling a play that ‘teeters on the edge of acceptability’ – but he�…

“Moving too fast,” Jamie sings in The Last Five Years—and it’s not a bad way to describe Whitney White’s current pace. A rising force in American theater, White is a director, writer and performer, wh…

The Understudy premieres today on STRATFEST@HOME! This Stratfest@Home original, filmed at the Festival’s Warehouse and Avon Theatre, offers a glimpse behind the curtain of the theatre world… Tom Rooney sta…

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights Performance…

Tim Crouch’s I, Banquo, onstage at Media’s Hedgerow Theatre, asks us in the words of Macbeth’s slain best friend what we would do if someone gave us a prophecy of absolute power. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer re…

It’s weird. “Othello” isn’t witty “Hamlet.” The play is not even as funny as “Macbeth.” Maybe it’s because they’re in the presence of celebrities. But I get the sense that the viewers are se…

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThis brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness Here is a Macbeth for young audiences th…

Playbill 󱢏. 3h󰞋󱟠. 󰟝. Something weird is heading to the U.K. · Weird, New Pop Version of Macbeth, Will Make World Premiere in 2026. PLAYBILL.COM.

The new Shakespeare-inspired musical from Nick Butcher and Scottish siblings Kerri Watt and Fraser Watt will play the Newcastle Theatre Royal.

Weird, an electrifying pop-powered musical reimagining Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth, will make its world premiere at Newcastle Theatre Royal next year

ETT has released production images for Artistic Director Richard Twyman’s reimagined production of Macbeth, running at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of …

DramaWatch: Only connect, all over town Linda FergusonWith a multitude of shows opening in the next few weeks, the artistic teams read like a who’s who of Portland theater favorites. Plus: Other openings, inc…

Trafalgar Releasing announces that the cinema release of the Donmar Warehouse’s award-winning production of MACBETH has grossed over £2M globally in its first week

Interview: Bianca Stephens plays Lady Macduff in English Touring Theatre's production of Macbeth which will open at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

An all new clip has been released of David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in the cinema release of the critically acclaimed production of Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth. Check out the video here!

Interview: Ros Watt stars as Malcolm in the cinema release of Macbeth, alongside David Tennant and Cush Jumbo which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End

The Drama League has announced the 2025 Special Recognition Honorees of the 91st Annual Drama League Awards. The honorees will be celebrated for their outstanding lifetime contributions to the theater industry …

Review: Macbeth in Cinemas "thoroughly Shakespearean and absolutely modern at the same time"