A Lady Macbeth strategy is a corporate takeover scheme in which a third party poses as a white knight to gain trust, but then ...

Double, double toil and trouble! William Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy “Macbeth” is receiving a brand-new adaptation courtesy of Joel Coen, one half of the duo behind films such as “No Country For ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Guthrie Theater has revealed the cast for its new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by Joe Dowling. The ...

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,” ...

Violent, blood-soaked and filled with nudity, Roman Polanski’s 1971 film version of “Macbeth” was intended to be a cinematic jolt -- a raw, realistic portrayal of medieval power plays that would be ...

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” may have a slightly longer title than past adaptations of the Scottish Play, but the movie itself, at 105 minutes, is actually tighter than most. It’s a few ...

See any great production of a classic, and it sets certain standards by which you’ll measure all others. See many very good to great productions, and you’ll amass a varied collection of such ...