Ever since its founder, Tyrone Guthrie, hung out his shingle in Minneapolis and launched the regional theater movement in the early 1960s, the works of William Shakespeare have been core repertoire ...

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 ...

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.

“IT was a stupid mistake to make,” said the American woman I had met at my hotel in the English lake country, “but it was on the counter with the other Penguin books—the little sixpenny ones, you know ...

Fresh from a sold-out Melbourne season, the Australian Shakespeare Company serve up a solid, but slightly staid production of the Bard's Macbeth in the beautiful setting of London's Kew Gardens.

STRATFORD — I shudder when I think about how much money was poured into the Stratford Festival’s latest “Macbeth,” which opened Wednesday at the Avon Theatre.

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness Here is a Macbeth for young audiences that is full of ...

Alice Birch, playwright and screenwriter behind breakout successes Anatomy of a Suicide, Lady Macbeth and Normal People, has opened up about the experience of being a writer. “Writing is how I make ...