Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere six years after Justin Kurzel directed Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard ...

Joel Coen’s new film “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is putting a diverse spin on the 400-year-old Shakespearean play, with Denzel Washington starring as the infamous Scottish king. Subscribe to read this ...

No literary figure inspired composers more than Shakespeare, and Giuseppe Verdi was hardly tone deaf to the musical ...

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 ...

Though the production too often feels as if it were designed for the company’s own edification — an endless rehearsal rather than a Broadway revival — it is not without its outward-facing qualities, ...

As Macbeth’s fate begins to catch up with him, the king in Los Angeles Opera’s 31 st season opener cannot look forward to having earned honor, love or compassion. His voice rises into a stressed high ...

For more than 50 years it has been one of the great questions of British cinema: what would the celebrated actor and director Laurence Olivier have done with Shakespeare's Macbeth if he had managed to ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

The last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses take place in this straightforward, Jacobean ...

Generally, with William Shakespeare film adaptations there are two ways to approach critical analysis, either by how well it adapts the Bard's play or how well it recontextualizes it. In both ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is making its first foray into video games, partnering with New York-based indie studio iNK Stories on “Lili,” a neo-noir thriller that reimagines “Macbeth” in ...