It was a big weekend for floor-length sparkly gowns and penguin suits—some accessorized with swooping capes, torn from the racks of Phantoms ‘R’ Us. On Friday, the Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its ...

Macbeth has been dissected as Shakespeare’s best take on political treachery, his historical reflection of King James I’s Scottish ancestry and his effort to inject some magic and mysticism into a ...

At the heart of Mad Cow Theatre’s three-actor version of Macbeth is a rich vein of twisted malice. It’s there in the way Sophia Wise slowly rocks back and forth on her heels in anticipation of Macbeth ...

When William Mason, the Lyric Opera’s general director, asked Barbara Gaines three years ago to direct Verdi’s Macbeth for 2010’s season opener, she piled on the homework. As the founding artistic ...

For its latest “Macbeth,” The Guthrie’s Wurtele Thrust Stage is transformed into a grand ruin, with the stage littered with the debris of long-standing battles and the great castle sporting ruined ...

Shakespeare in Delaware Park’s 35th Anniversary Season continues with the opening of Macbeth. As in years past, the selection of plays for the season follows a pattern of producing one of the comedies ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble,” or so the spell goes. Local students are bringing Shakespeare to life with a dinner theater production of “Macbeth” ...

For the three performers in Mad Cow Theatre’s production, opening tonight, there’s a practical answer to the question: They will meet in every scene. That’s because in this – and the meaning behind ...

Revelatory production of Verdi opera evokes contemporary struggles. I have never understood the charm of Brussels, certainly not its urban architecture, which combines historic monuments with 1980s ...

History of Art professor Alexander Nemerov’s new book, “Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War,” begins on the stage of a performance of “Macbeth” on Oct. 17, 1863 in Washington, ...