It seems like a big coincidence: Macbeth can’t stop thinking about what the Witches have said. King James I was so worried about witches, he wrote a book about it. Perhaps the king’s interest ...

Read our review of *Macbeth*, starring Alex Austin and Lois Chimimba, now in performances at the Lyric Hammersmith to 29 ...

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is not original’ William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy that explores ambition and the corrupting ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ghosts.

referring to one of the lighter episodes in the book where Gruach and Macbeth enjoy a trip to medieval Rome, meet the Pope and bump into their pal from home, Yorfinn the Viking, Yarl of Orkney.

The ambitious project stars Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir (“Holy Spider”) as Lady Macbeth, with her Paris-based Alambic Production co-producing. A French-Iranian actor who was named to ...