It seems I owe an abbreviated apology to the town of Ballyjamesduff, mentioned earlier in the week in connection with a 1922 football match played for the prize of a machine gun.
Irish Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga was last in New York playing Hamlet in a sold out, critically acclaimed run - but this month she's back in another play by Shakespeare, this time as Lady Macbeth .
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Joan MarcusIs this Macbeth, or a test kitchen for Hale and Hearty? A mainly bare stage greets the audience at Macbeth on Broadway (Longacre Theatre, booking to July 10).
Classic plays don’t require updates or new translations to stay fresh, but if they are indeed classics, they can withstand new interpretations.
Sam Gold’s inventively staged take on the classic tragedy has its moments but there’s something missing at the centre .
A video of West End star Kerry Ellis singing a song from new musical Lady M has been revealed! Based on Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Lady M tells the untold story of Lady Macbeth.
The most commonly held taboo in the arts is uttering the word “Macbeth” inside a theater.
The final production of the historic 2021-2022 Broadway season reaches back to the early modern era for inspiration with a remounting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.
I’m not sure the play benefits from demystifying, though.