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 ...

Step into an ominous world of witches, warfare, murder, and madness this season at the Blackfriars Playhouse with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a relentless examination of the darkest depths of the human ...

The timeless tale begins when triumphant warriors Macbeth and Banquo return home after a long battle. They encounter a trio of mysterious witches and receive prophecies of the future. These glorious ...

Envision Macbeth, a tragic tale of kings, battles and prophecies, instead as a Halloween fête that’s going great until somebody turns up dead. That’s more or less what Tess Holbrook created. The ...

Gilda Vishki, Kiana Hoveida, Mehdi Ez’ani, Mohammad Dehmolai, Arsam Firouzi, Hasti Arsh and Amin Nateqi are the main members of the cast for the play, which will remain on stage until November 13. In ...

The Shakespeare aficionado is a marvel as all three witches in Joel Coen's spare adaptation, in a physical performance that deserves awards. She’s played Cleopatra, Lady M, King Lear — and his fool, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Manual Cinema show is hard to explain. It’s performed live, but it’s not quite a theater piece. It’s puppetry but not in the traditional sense. It’s cinema, as the company’s name suggests, yet ...