I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying. But not as dissatisfying as I found Ben Brantley’s review thereof. Not that I disagree with all of Brantley’s complaints, ...
When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and ...
Lightning strikes and three witches appear. They tell the Thane he will become king of Scotland - once, of course, the current king dies. Macbeth decides that to fulfill this prophecy he will commit ...
Three productions of Shakespeare in one summer are remarkable for this country, particularly as two of them were by professional companies. Last week’s production ...
The opera takes place in Scotland, and ACT ONE begins in a forest. Macbeth and Banquo, two Scottish generals in King Duncan's army, stop to visit with coven of witches. The witches tell Macbeth that ...
There is no shortage of Oscar-worthy performances in The Tragedy of Macbeth, which is now streaming free on Apple TV+. After all, this Macbeth adaptation from director Joel Coen stars multiple Academy ...
Oh that it should come to this! The witches in "Macbeth" -- those paragons of ill will and bad faith, those amoral purveyors of half-truths and sensational delusions -- are portrayed by Ghost Light ...
The seasoned theatergoer knows one must be ready for anything attending a production of "Macbeth" I refer not to the play's mythic curse - hence the euphemism "the Scottish play," used by many theater ...
The rounded globe of the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science came alight with billowing clouds of faint color as the audience lay back to absorb The Psych Drama Company’s abstract, ...