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 ...

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, ...

Witches are the new vampires. There are so many crones crowding TV screens and stages this fall that sweeps period has taken on a whole new meaning. The witches come in all shapes, sizes and sexes.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “It’s just coincidence,” Philip Kerr says of the superstitions that swirl around Shakespeare’s ...

Ethan Hawke has been surprising theatergoers for years, plugging his febrile, hot-wired persona into memorable performances of Shakespeare and Chekhov, Sam Shepard and Tom Stoppard. Director Jack ...

It’s the greatest treatise on bloodthirsty ambition ever written. Shakespeare’s Macbeth kills his king for his crown and then everyone else who crosses his path before being inevitably felled himself.

No. XIX. Macbeth. Act I. Scene III. A Heath. Macbeth, Banquo, and three Witches. Painted by Mr. FUSELI, R.A. Engraved by J. CALDWELL. 1 WitCh. Lesser than Macbeth ...