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You can catch Lepage's production of Macbeth at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, Ont., until Nov. 2. The full interview with Robert Lepage is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power.
Outlander star Sam Heughan has been cast in the lead role in Macbeth in his first major theatre production since he found fame in the time travel fantasy series. The 45-year-old will make his ...
Tom Rooney as Macduff (left) and André Sills as Ross in Macbeth. Robert Lepage's reimagining of the Shakespeare play is set in the late 1990s in a Quebec motel war-torn by biker gangs.
Macbeth has its press opening on May 28 and runs until November 2 at the Avon Theatre. Tickets are available at stratfordfestival.ca or by calling 1.800.567.1600.
Cincy Shakes’s adaptation of Macbeth immerses the audience in a world where the edge of insanity is closer than it appears. “In my experience with Macbeth productions and analyses, I’ve noticed a ...
Nothing wrong with treating Macbeth like a black comedy, but Twyman’s production is all over the shop tonally. Many – even most – of the ideas would be interesting if followed through ...
The witches are the ones who inspire the chaos with their prophecy “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” But they also represent the victims of war: the noncombatants, the onlookers.
Excessive ambition proves disastrous in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” running at College of Marin’s James Dunn Theatre through Oct. 13.
In 2011, he made his directing debut with the tragedy Coriolanus, in which he played the title role. In 2023, Fiennes took the stage in London and Washington D.C. to play the lead in Macbeth.
When Lady Macbeth sleepwalks into her culpable death, the most moving aspect is the gruff way her husband moves on with his business. The paths of the Macbeths diverge with ironic antithesis.
War is a perpetual presence in Macbeth and we wanted to make that clear because I think it explains a lot about why the characters do what they do. Macbeth opens in select theaters on May 2.
Lady Macbeth, it turns out, has her own history with the witches, whom she sought out for medicine to prevent a miscarriage but neglected to pay when she still lost the child.