Whether you got As or Fs in high school English class, you surely remember the high points of Macbeth. The three witches. (“Double, double toil and trouble.”) Banquo’s ghost. (“Never shake thy gory ...

Lucy Cuthbertson’s dynamic, laser-focused production for this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank project, geared to secondary school audiences, begins with not one, but several loud bangs.

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 ...

Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue is both thrilling ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The festival’s choice this year was among the more arcane: Macbeth in a critical edition of the now-standard 1865 ...

The critically acclaimed West End production of “Macbeth,” starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, is getting a cinema release across the U.K., U.S., Australia and other select international ...

Lady Macbeth is one of the most famous female villains in all of literary history. Yet, despite her infamy, her tale has glaring gaps and misrepresentations. For the uninitiated, Shakespeare's Macbeth ...

Kate Hunter does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday defended a recent speech she delivered to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, torching President Biden’s "betrayal of the ...

Marion Gibson receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. “Out, damned spot,” Lady Macbeth famously says as she wrings her hands, attempting to remove a bloodstain her guilt-ridden mind has conjured.

Val McDermid’s reimagining of the Macbeth story involves as daring a trick as anything Shakespeare provided for the theatre, writes Allan Massie This site is ...