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 …

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…

The Sticking Place by American Theatre Editors

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

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 …

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…

Macbeth (An Undoing)

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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…

‘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…

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…

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…

The humanity of ‘Macbeth’ shimmers in this Boulder production by Susan Harper

Colorado Shakespeare Festival kicks off an indoor season with a surprisingly enjoyable take on ‘The Scottish Play’ The post The humanity of ‘Macbeth’ shimmers in this Boulder product…

Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess by Chris Wiegand

The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest Jodie Whittaker is returning to the stage for the fi…

Macbeth – Free Shakespeare in Battery Park

Malthouse Theatre: MACBETH (AN UNDOING) by Aussie Theatre

Following successful seasons in Edinburgh, London and New York, Zinnie Harris’ acclaimed play Macbeth (An Undoing) will make its Australian

York International Shakespeare festival review – the bard without borders by Clare Brennan

York St John University, YorkFootsbarn Travelling Theatre’s Twelfth Night and a Turkish Macbeth rubbed shoulders with manga, memoir and a Ukrainian scratch show at this boundary-defying fe…

‘Just let us audition’: UK transgender actors appeal to be cast in non-trans roles by Kate Wyver

Kim Tatum, Mariah Louca and Reece Lyons combine to call for trans women to be put on an equal footing for cis roles Kim Tatum dreams of playing Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard’s exquisite …

Judi Dench reflects on a career built around Shakespeare

Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But among the roles the actress is most closely associated, are Shakespeare's heroines and some…

Interview: Simon Godwin on How MACBETH Can Connect to Audiences Today

Simon Godwin is no stranger to the work of Shakespeare. Until May 5, his production of Macbeth is playing in D.C. with a cast led by Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. The film version of this …

RALPH FIENNES IN ‘MACBETH’ COMES TO MOVIE THEATERS FOR TWO DAYS ONLY: THURSDAY, MAY 2, AND SUNDAY, MAY 5 (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Director Simon Godwin’s structured, composed descent into the “defilement of a mind” in Macbeth is objective and clear, filmed unpoetically,  yet sustained with uniforml…

Watch: See Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma Perform in Macbeth by Diep Tran, Margaret Hall

The production is currently running in Washington, D.C. and will also receive a series of cinema screenings.

HAPPY SHAKESPEARE DAY by Jan Simpson

The 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…

Lady Macbeth Gets Two Very Different Interpretations by Maya Phillips

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo-Led Macbeth Will Transfer to the West End by Andrew Gans

Max Webster directs the Donmar Warehouse production.

Macbeth (an undoing) by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

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…

Stephen Moyer and Miriam Silverman Star in Macbeth Off-Broadway April 20 and 21 by Margaret Hall

The two-performance production continues Red Bull Theater's 20th Anniversary Celebration

Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’ presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company by Lynne Menefee

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…

Macbeth – Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC  by Jk Clarke

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…

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to lead ‘brutal’ Romeo + Juliet on Broadway by Benjamin Lee

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…

Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center by Loren Noveck

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…

Macbeth (An Undoing) Review: When Undoing Is an Understatement by Dan Rubins

In 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…

Macbeth (an undoing): The Shakespeare Classic Undone to a Fare-Thee-Well by David Finkle

★★☆☆☆ 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…