There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Cinephiles and dramaturges are in for a real treat this weekend because The Tragedy of Macbeth—Joel Coen’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece—is ...

The Hogarth Shakespeare series has been having a little fun with the Bard in recent years, reimagining the plays for a 21st-century audience. The latest edition is a retelling of Macbeth by Jo Nesbo, ...

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 ...

Jonathan Bailey, in a recent interview with the Variety series Actors on Actors, remembered saying "Macbeth" in a theater and ...

In the first chapter of Natural Right and History (1950), philosopher Leo Strauss launched a memorable attack on “historicism”. The “historical school” emerged, he argued, in reaction to the French ...

4 First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Philippines Awards In theory, Macbeth has all the themes that will make it appealing: murder, loyalty, betrayal, and fate. It even has witches, ...

Though you wouldn’t really expect the director of “Snowtown” to adapt “Twelfth Night” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Justin Kurzel is a perfect fit for “Macbeth.” Graduating from Critics’ Week to ...

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.

Two men, weary and bloody from battle, emerge from a white mist to commune with an old woman on the edge of a mirror-clear pond. In the pond, where she should have a single, dark reflection, there are ...