Monday, October 21, 2024

Macbeth by Victoria Weisfeld

A stunning production of Macbeth makes this play not only fresh but freshly relevant. Fine acting, innovative touches, and superb production values. At The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey …

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 03:09PM
Friday, October 18, 2024

The Duchess [Of Malfi] | 2024 West End Vox Pops by Official London Theatre

Back on stage for the first time in over a decade, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed contemporary adaptation of The Duch…

SOURCE: YouTube at 06:44AM
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Macbeth By Candlelight Illuminates Jersey City  by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Elise Nussbaum . . .  The endless elasticity of Shakespeare can be stretched to fit any variety of settings: a pre-gentrification West Side, an animated African savannah, …

SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 01:54AM
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

MACBETH Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo Will Be Screened in Cinemas Next Year

Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End, will come to cinemas next year.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:17AM
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Theatre Review: ‘The Tragedie of Macbeth’ presented by Taffety Punk Theatre Company at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop by Fosse Thornton

For an acting company, Shakespeare is both daunting and liberating. His work has long been declared public domain, so there is a tantalizing impetus for a complete and total overhaul of the …

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:39PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’ at Classic Theatre of Maryland by Julia Tucker

For more than four centuries, “Macbeth” has been one of Shakespeare’s best-known works. This tragedy explores the themes of fate, loyalty, power, and ambition, as well as the concept o…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:33PM
Monday, September 23, 2024

 Eclipse Theatre LA presents “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Pauline Adamek

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes! This portentous line is uttered by one of the three weird sisters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Coming to L.A. this Octob…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PM

Four Reasons We Can't Wait for Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Go Head to Head in Othello by Darryn King and Hayley Levitt

Shakespeare’s Othello is a play overflowing with passion, rage and intrigue. In the upcoming Broadway revival, it will also have two of the most magnetic leading men around pitted against …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PM
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Philly Fringe 2024: New Paradise Laboratories presents Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’ by Kiran Pandey

Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’ in the Cannonball hub of this year’s Fringe is a one-man riff on Macbeth that, despite its sincerity, fails to fully engage in the implications …

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PM
Thursday, September 5, 2024

MUST presents Shakespeare’s MACBETH by Aussie Theatre

Featuring a dynamic cast of 23, MUST returns to the Alexander Theatre with William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This intensely theatrical and

SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 04:40AM
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar: The Taming of the Shrew by The Old Globe

Director Shana Cooper joins The Old Globe's Justin Waldman to discuss her visionary new production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminars provide …

SOURCE: YouTube at 03:47PM
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Vladimir, Starring Norbert Leo Butz, Completes Casting for Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere by Hayley Levitt

The complete cast is set for Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Vladimir, starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz. Written by Erika Sheffer and directed by …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PM
Friday, August 16, 2024

Interview: From Sarah Brown to Lady Day- SAG Nominee Audra McDonald Shares Stories of Her Legendary by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: She won your heart as Lottie Gee, Billie Holliday, and Bess (and that's been just the past few years). Audra McDonald has grown to be perhaps the greatest tale…

SOURCE: YouTube at 09:36AM
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

“Hamstrung.” Yorick’s Untold Story by Margaret Rose

Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:10PM
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare by Mark Lawson

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonTamara Harvey’s first production as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director highlights the play’s sharp political intelligence For reasons…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AM
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Two-Time Tony Winner Norbert Leo Butz and More to Star in Vladimir by Darryn King

The world premiere of Vladimir, a new play by Erika Sheffer directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan, has announced initial casting. The MTC production will begin performances at New York Cit…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PM

Two-Time Tony Winner Norbert Leo Butz and More to Star in MTC's Vladimir Off-Broadway by Darryn King

The world premiere of Vladimir, a new play by Erika Sheffer directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan, has announced initial casting. The MTC production will begin performances at New York Cit…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PM
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Review: Marin Shakes christens new San Rafael venue with bold experiment by Lily Janiak

Leontyne Mbele-Mbong and Michael Torres are so good in this “echo” of “Macbeth” that you might realize you never fully understood Shakespeare’s tragedy before.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:46PM
Friday, August 2, 2024

Kathryn Hunter Talks Playing The Witches in THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: In the new film adaption of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Kathryn Hunter plays all three witches. BroadwayWorld caught up with Hunter to discuss playing all three wit…

SOURCE: YouTube at 10:01AM
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Something Wicked This Way Comes When MACBETH Returns to Broadway by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we rewind to 2013, when Macbeth returned to Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 60 performances.

SOURCE: YouTube at 09:06AM
Friday, July 26, 2024

Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience by Chris Wiegand

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Gleefully batty caper finds one of the weird sisters in hot cauldron water after making reckless promises of a very bright future to a passing …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by New York Theater

It was “Macbeth” that drew Judi Dench to the theater, after she overheard her older brother in a school production  recite the line from the play: “What bloody man is that?” and s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Sticking Place by American Theatre Editors

Why and how Shakespeare Theatre Company took a starry, bloody, transatlantic ‘Macbeth’ to the warehouse.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM
Monday, July 22, 2024

Boop, Redwood, Last 5 Years get Broadway dates. Shakespeare and Suffs get Presidential. #Stageworthy News by New York Theater

The startling political developments of late are being viewed through a theatrical lens, repeatedly.   A surprising number of professional commentators have invoked Shakespeare, sometimes …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PM
Sunday, July 14, 2024

A Warrior to Direct Warriors

ATA Journeyman KEN COUGHLIN has been chosen to direct MACBETH for the American Theatre of Actors’ Shakespeare Summer Fest 2024. Kaitlyn Clark spoke to Ken about with version of “That Sco…

SOURCE: Arts Independent at 08:12PM
Friday, July 12, 2024

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act by Fiona Sturges

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard Anyone w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM
Monday, July 8, 2024

Macbeth (An Undoing)

The post Macbeth (An Undoing) appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:09PM
Monday, July 1, 2024

Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the bard’s work updated on screen by Charles Bramesco

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman What is the Shakespeare canon if not the id…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM
Sunday, June 23, 2024

‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation by David Smith In Washington

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a prod…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM
Saturday, June 22, 2024

OLIVIER AWARDS 2014 - James McAvoy by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: X-Men's James McAvoy talks to the cameras at the 2014 Oliviers. He wasn't nominated for a prize this year, but was a special guest presenter. He has most recent…

SOURCE: YouTube at 07:24AM
Sunday, June 16, 2024

A Sneak Peek at 'Never Say Macbeth' - Now On DVD! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: BroadwayWorld.com is pleased to bring you this one-minute trailer for Never Say Macbeth, the first film about the curse of Macbeth. The Shakespeare play is cons…

SOURCE: YouTube at 11:06AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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