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 ...

At the heart of Mad Cow Theatre’s three-actor version of Macbeth is a rich vein of twisted malice. It’s there in the way Sophia Wise slowly rocks back and forth on her heels in anticipation of Macbeth ...

The phenomenal Rick Miller brought his high-energy production of “MacHomer” to the California Shakespeare Theater this past week. I was exhausted just watching him easily transition from one crazy ...

When William Mason, the Lyric Opera’s general director, asked Barbara Gaines three years ago to direct Verdi’s Macbeth for 2010’s season opener, she piled on the homework. As the founding artistic ...

Typically, Shakespeare in the Vines chooses a theme for itssummer season of plays, such as last year’s Comedy Tonight angle.This summer, however, the troupe decided to mix it up. Marriage, Murder and ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble,” or so the spell goes. Local students are bringing Shakespeare to life with a dinner theater production of “Macbeth” ...

Revelatory production of Verdi opera evokes contemporary struggles. I have never understood the charm of Brussels, certainly not its urban architecture, which combines historic monuments with 1980s ...

Macbeth has been dissected as Shakespeare’s best take on political treachery, his historical reflection of King James I’s Scottish ancestry and his effort to inject some magic and mysticism into a ...