It’s the greatest treatise on bloodthirsty ambition ever written. Shakespeare’s Macbeth kills his king for his crown and then everyone else who crosses his path before being inevitably felled himself.

The Hogarth Shakespeare series has been having a little fun with the Bard in recent years, reimagining the plays for a 21st-century audience. The latest edition is a retelling of Macbeth by Jo Nesbo, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Cinephiles and dramaturges are in for a real treat this weekend because The Tragedy of Macbeth—Joel Coen’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece—is ...

“Macbeth,” from the Australian director Justin Kurzel, is powered by an electrifying title performance by Michael Fassbender in the role of Shakespeare’s murderous tragic hero that is raw, searing and ...

The Aussie auteur discusses turning Michael? Fassbender into Macbeth, Marion ?Cotillard’s 'aura' and why he’s attracted to dark material. By Rebecca Ford It’s been 10 years since Justin Kurzel first ...

Denzel Washington. Frances McDormand. Joel Coen. William Shakespeare. I could probably stop my review right there and you’d already want to see the movie with a two-time Oscar winner working with the ...

William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth is many things: ruthless, ambitious, manipulative, flawed. But there’s one thing she isn’t ...

There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who ...

Seven girls convene at dusk in an abandoned lot, somewhere that playwright Erica Schmidt describes in her script as “an urban wasteland”: tall grass, an overturned couch, bits of trash, a dented metal ...

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