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,” ...
With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene. By Oussama Zahr Heartbeat Opera, a small, nimble company that ...
Whitney White as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth in Stride" at the American Repertory Theater. (Courtesy Lauren Miller) Singing witches, a little bit of rock 'n' roll and a whole lot of gospel mark actor and ...
“Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater. The stage is littered with “Macbeth” disasters. Other plays may have an equally bad track ...
On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...
Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue is both thrilling ...
Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...
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 ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Zaina and Marwa in crowns, playing a simultaneous Macbeth as Jodi Schneider and Jhenzen Gonzales ...
This post was originally published Dec. 24, 2021. Joel Coen had just put to bed “Hail, Caesar!” – his 17th feature film with brother Ethan Coen – when the idea for “The Tragedy of Macbeth” came to him ...
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is the kind of movie that a hero of the Coen brothers, Preston Sturges, mocked eighty years ago in his great film “Sullivan’s Travels,” about a famous comedy ...
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 ...
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