The comedian’s new ‘Porter scene’ is a mess, but this RSC production is saved by its dark atmosphere and Valene Kane’s turn as Lady Macbeth Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy ...

New productions of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” follow a French tradition of adapting familiar works. The results are innovative, and sometimes cryptic. By Laura Cappelle The critic Laura Cappelle saw the ...

Near the end of Act I of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, Macbeth contemplates the price that may be paid for his unchecked ambition and lust for power: “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but ...

Imaginative and powerfully delivered, the Washington National Opera’s Macbeth is the opera to drop everything and see. Verdi’s gorgeously dramatic distillation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is already ever ...

The two assassins murder Banquo, but fail to kill his son Fleance. In the evening there is a banquet to celebrate the Macbeths' coronation. Macbeth is confronted by Banquo's ghost and after the guests ...