Fontaine Syer has put together a spare and searing production of William Shakespeare’s great tragedy Macbeth for the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, which opened Friday. It wastes no time in ...

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

In this gripping production of moments from William Shakespeare’s greatest works, the stage comes alive with the echoes of Macbeth’s maniacal ambitions, the chilling whispers of Hamlet’s ghostly ...

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

Few plays force us to fully look evil in the face, and to consider the inhumanity of which humanity is capable, as insistently as “Macbeth.” It’s like war in that way. Indeed, as you watch the ...

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 ...