In a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvisation. It is a ...

First look photos have been released for the world premiere of Weird. Written by Nick Butcher, Kerri Watt and Fraser Watt, Weird retells Shakespeare’s Macbeth through the perspective of the three ...

Most New Year’s resolutions are modest ambitions like eating healthier or reading more. Macbeth’s ambition is to become king. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Shakespeare Dallas’ winter production, ...

Sam Heughan and Lia Williams in Macbeth - '£7.50 a pint in that London Makkers' In high concept stuff like this, detail is crucial and Anna Reid’s set is perfect, the smallest of the RSC’s three ...

“It’s a bold move to reactivate Stratford’s The Other Place as a regular performance space with ‘Macbeth’,” said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. “This, after all, was the scene of Trevor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 45-year-old heartthrob Sam Heughan handles the Bard’s verse well - Helen Murray Sam Heughan, the rugged Scottish star of Outlander ...

Daniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show Audiences arriving to find the RSC’s studio stage fitted out with ...

Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

Few London pubs come with the East End lore of The Macbeth, which is to noughties indie sleaze what the Blind Beggar is to '60s Kray twins legend. It was here, in 2006, that Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy ...

It seems unorthodox at a crucial moment in Macbeth that an assassin prowling a castle would choose to speak aloud – not to a person, but to the ground beneath his feet: “Thou sure and firm-set earth, ...

As Macbeth’s whole world falls apart, the audience sits in rapt silence. Here, in Stratford, the Shakespearean classic is being put on with a modern twist: This Macbeth is in leather, not tartan. His ...