Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere six years after Justin Kurzel directed Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard ...

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence. At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The ...

William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth is many things: ruthless, ambitious, manipulative, flawed. But there’s one thing she isn’t ...

To imagine a world without God, a world awash in darkest nihilism, one has only to read Shakespeare, the sum of whose achievement no artist this side of the Greek tragedians can equal. One must look ...

The Linkville Players will tackle their most ambitious production yet when William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” opens in January.

William Shakespeare’s action-packed tragedy of ambition, betrayal, murder, and pesky stains that just won’t wash out, Macbeth, has a vexed reputation among Real Theatre People. Legend has it that the ...

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 ...

Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements. Armed with a sword steaming with the blood of his enemies, ...

Bloody ambition and its chilling, destructive consequences are the core of the story in the tragedy "Macbeth," playing this week at Firestone Community Learning Center in Akron. A 14-member student ...