Val McDermid’s reimagining of the Macbeth story involves as daring a trick as anything Shakespeare provided for the theatre, ...

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

On Shakespeare’s birthday, we explore why his villains—brutally honest, self-aware, and unapologetic still resonate more ...

Thirty of William Shakespeare's "underwritten" female characters speak their mind in a new book of speeches by English ...

The latest production of the William Shakespeare tragedy – which stars Tennant as Macbeth and Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth – concluded its West End run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in December, with a ...

Lady Macbeth Shakespeare echoed contemporary anxieties ... Institute at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book, Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich’s failure to write more operas. After Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ...

Evidence I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other -- / [Enter Lady Macbeth] / How now? What news? (Act 1 Scene 7 ...

A new Shakespeare adaptation, “Lady Macbeth,” was about to go onstage, and the choreographer, Helen Pickett, and her assistants crisscrossed the room to deliver last-minute changes or tweak ...