Shakespeare’s plays rarely come to Broadway, and when they do, it tends to be in the form of star-driven productions imported from England. Of these, the one that has lodged itself most firmly in my ...

Here’s a real witches brew: a “Macbeth” so mangled it makes Hamlet look sane. For his first foray into Shakespeare’s Folio in 25 years, director Rufus Norris, also the artistic director of the ...

The tragedy of Joel Coen’s Tragedy of Macbeth is that it is not a comedy. When Coen, usually in collaboration with his brother Ethan, explored crime, deception, corruption, death, and fate, the ...

Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

Jay Nehus brought gravitas to Macduff, making his scenes of grief and vengeance especially moving. His confrontation with ...

There are few leading ladies in theater as iconic as Lady Macbeth. She is one of the genre’s most captivating, difficult leads — a woman so enthralled by the pursuit of power that she drives her ...

“IT was a stupid mistake to make,” said the American woman I had met at my hotel in the English lake country, “but it was on the counter with the other Penguin books—the little sixpenny ones, you know ...

A historical look back at Orson Welles’s production of “Macbeth” with an all-Black cast in Harlem in the 1930s. By Beandrea July When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...