Sophie Fiennes’s thoughtful documentary follows director Declan Donnellan as he helps actors find their way through Macbeth’s lines ...

The Harvey Norman chief executive wants William Shakespeare, and the arts in general, to be in reach for young and old.

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Themes are the main ideas that appear repeatedly in a play. Some of the important themes in Macbeth ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Great Lakes Theater is synonymous with Shakespeare, yet it hadn’t staged “Macbeth” since 2018. GLT’s new production, at the Hanna Theatre through April 4, is worth the wait, a ...

What does it mean to be haunted by ambition? Can we escape our destiny? How do we cope with our worst actions? Guthrie Theater’s “Macbeth” answers these questions in its gripping exploration of murder ...

Ever since its founder, Tyrone Guthrie, hung out his shingle in Minneapolis and launched the regional theater movement in the early 1960s, the works of William Shakespeare have been core repertoire ...

Theater is good for examining our moral quandaries or offering a diversion from those troubles, said Guthrie Theater artistic director Joseph Haj. “Macbeth,” which opened Feb. 5, offers a little of ...

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 ...

Daniel 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 studio stage fitted out with ...

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.

It is said of Macbeth that it lacks the equivocation and ambiguity of other Shakespearean tragedies. The protagonist knows the difference between right and wrong, and he chooses wrong. How does this ...