Macbeth is a spooky horror story set in Scotland. There are gory bits. There are witches and spooky visions. Macbeth and his wife commit so many horrible crimes that towards the end even Lady Macbeth ...

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in a dark new adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, directed by the Justin Kurzel. Nicholas Barber takes a look from the Cannes Film Festival. Superstitious ...

The death of Yale English Professor Harold Bloom on October 14 brings to an end the career of one of the most prolific and widely read critics in the history of Western letters. Labelled a “colossus” ...

“Macbeth” is littered with casualties — and not only on the fictional battlefield. The tragedy has taken down a battalion of the finest directors and actors, who have fallen victim to the play’s real ...

“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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue. By Maya Phillips “You gon’ rework a ...

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.

The atmosphere is immediately spotless, with details of exquisite immersive nuance. The carpet of the auditorium flows onto the central stage, adding a voyeuristic element to the staging. The intimacy ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains disturbing ...