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 ...

Meghan Kreidler as Lady Macbeth and Daniel José Molina as Macbeth appear in a tense dinner table scene in the Guthrie Theater’s “Macbeth.” Photo by Dan Norman There’s something electric about opening ...

Theodor Adorno once described a true performance as ‘a copy of a non-existent original’. It is tempting to think that in the case of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District the original ...

Latina Lady Macbeth That was not a judgment shared by many Venezuelans, who regard Maduro as having neither the brains nor the charisma of Chávez, the country’s ruler from 1999 until he died in 2013, ...

Nicknamed 'Lady Macbeth' for her ambition and influence, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, has long been seen as the power behind the regime in Caracas. With the US capturing ...

William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth is many things: ruthless, ambitious, manipulative, flawed. But there’s one thing she isn’t: a man. Or so I thought. For almost a decade, I have been working as a ...

Composed between 1930 and 1932, when the young Dmitri Shostakovich had not yet turned thirty, “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” represents one of the boldest and most radical moments in the ...

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.