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.

Three hooded figures, all masked with gold, stand in a triangular formation. Their voices are eerily calm. Waves of distorted frequencies begin to permeate the theater. Suddenly, the figures drop to ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...