Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

Lady Macbeth’s famous soliloquy is fearsome to behold. In the speech—which appears in Act 1 Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth—Lady Macbeth resolves to kill Duncan, the King of Scotland, so Macbeth can ...

“Lady Macbeth” is neither a Shakespearean re-working nor a bodice-and-bonnets drama in the vein of Merchant-Ivory fare. It features a striking lead performance, but it ultimately leaves the viewer ...

In the opening shots of “Lady Macbeth,” a bride (Florence Pugh) gazes upward through the mist of her veil, looking lovely, quietly curious and very young. In its final shots, she sits on a ...

Although there have been many successful productions of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, the act ...

The four-time Oscar nominee makes her London stage debut, alongside James McArdle, in director Yaël Farber’s fresh take on the Scottish play. By Demetrios Matheou It speaks volumes for Saoirse Ronan’s ...

Joel H. Morris’s newest book, “All Our Yesterdays,” adds yet another narrative to the long history of Shakespeare retellings. “All Our Yesterdays” is set ten years before the plot of Shakespeare’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios, the production division responsible for series including Doctor Who, Good Omens and Luther, is developing a high-end drama based on the real-life story behind the murderous and ...

In its opening scenes, it seems like Lady Macbeth has been mistitled. Somewhere in a gloomy, windswept, rural corner of Victorian England, Anna (Naomi Ackie) prepares the young Katherine (Florence ...

Florence Pugh announces herself as a major talent to watch in William Oldroyd's impressively tough-minded Victorian tragedy. Shrewdly adapted (and anglicised) by first-time scribe Alice Birch from ...