Joel Coen’s new film “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is putting a diverse spin on the 400-year-old Shakespearean play, with Denzel Washington starring as the infamous Scottish king. Subscribe to read this ...

A haunting new "Macbeth" at Magic Theatre in San Francisco turns Shakespeare into a modern, unsettling experience with bold staging and standout performances.

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth ...

New York City of the 1970s was a scourge of epic proportions. The grime and the underbelly bubbling up from the scorching ...

Ahead of its Idaho Shakespeare Festival run, actor Cassandra Bissell and director Sara Bruner discuss reinterpreting Macbeth, ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Macbeth, Druid Theatre, Galway, Ireland★★★★☆THE peat floor of Francis O’Connor’s set still smells of damp earth as the ...

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 ...

Denzel Washington takes on the title character in Joel Coen's Bard-based film, The Tragedy of Macbeth, with murder-minded Lady Macbeth played by Coen's wife, Frances McDormand. This year has had lots ...

As Macbeth’s fate begins to catch up with him, the king in Los Angeles Opera’s 31 st season opener cannot look forward to having earned honor, love or compassion. His voice rises into a stressed high ...

For more than 50 years it has been one of the great questions of British cinema: what would the celebrated actor and director Laurence Olivier have done with Shakespeare's Macbeth if he had managed to ...