This weekend, student-run theater company Shakespeare on the Lawn presented their adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Macbeth is Australia’s most performed Shakespearean play – so pity theatre critics like Jane Howard who don’t enjoy it As a theatre critic it’s important to not decide on a work before you see it. But ...

Generally, with William Shakespeare film adaptations there are two ways to approach critical analysis, either by how well it adapts the Bard's play or how well it recontextualizes it. In both ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

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 ...

The last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses take place in this straightforward, Jacobean ...