Letters: Laura Bush, Gospel Choir, MacBeth Melissa Block and Michele Norris read from letters sent in the past week. Listeners comment on our interview with first lady Laura Bush, the comments of ...

Macbeth’s ambition is often attributed to his wife — even Shakespeare knew about the “b—- set me up” defense, which Marion Barry coined but has been common since Eve and the apple.

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence. At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The best ...

There are many reasons Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most treasured works. It has a natural propulsion that can carry contemporary audiences through its deeply human narrative. It drips with ...

Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s best characters, but Negga, far from the center of the play, barely leaves a mark. Together, she and Craig have no spark.

"Macbeth in Stride" has successfully reimagined its iconic female lead — a figure long used to insult ambitious women — as an empowering character relatable to marginalized audiences.

Notably, the original pronouns in the text remain the same. When approaching the challenge of playing Macbeth, Rose Hansen ’25 said that she attempted to reflect Macbeth’s masculinity into her acting.

Radically cutting down and revising Shakeseare’s text, Kurzel and his co-writers open with a stark, wordless scene of Macbeth and his wife (Marion Cotillard) on a bleak hillside, lighting a ...

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 ...