When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and ...

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble... With those iconic words in The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare created an indelible image of witches that endures to this day.

I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying. But not as dissatisfying as I found Ben Brantley’s review thereof. Not that I disagree with all of Brantley’s complaints, ...

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is, among other things, visually gripping, a stark, haunting dreamscape that often seems to exist outside of time. While the film is carried by Denzel Washington ...

The Australian director Justin Kurzel’s spare, scorched vision of Macbeth, in theaters December 4, is not a joy to watch. It is an assault of gritty, stylized realism: The Bard’s soliloquies are not ...

One of history's greatest playwrights was William Shakespeare. In his play 'Macbeth,” three witches predict tragedy for the titular general. In this excerpt from Act IV, Scene I, the 'weird sisters” ...