Macbeth News

 
Madeleine Stowe: The Lady Macbeth of the small screen
Chicago Sun-Times
“Not to compare this with Shakespeare, but there's a Lady Macbeth kind of quality to her.” The 53-year-old actress barely looks a day older than when she starred opposite Kevin Costner in the movie “Revenge” (unrelated to the ABC series) more than 20 ...

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552 - When Macbeth Met Hamlet: a Scandinavian Scotland?
Big Think (blog)
To be or not to be Scandinavian, that might be the question soon enough for Scotland, if it decides to become independent. For the time being, Scotland is still a part of the United Kingdom, as it has been since the Acts of Union in 1707.

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Long Wharf's MACBETH 1969 is Much Toil and Trouble through February 12
Broadway World
Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, goes under the knife in Long Wharf's premiere production of Macbeth 1969. Reset from Scotland to a Vietnam veteran's hospital in Middle America, what emerges is an hour-and-50 minute revision that surgically excises the ...
You Call This Therapy?New Haven Independent

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Selby Times
A Modern 'Macbeth,' in Sight, Not Sound
New York Times
Most theater people know about the “Macbeth” superstition: Should someone speak the play's title inside a theater, disaster will befall the production or the cast. That is why so many refer to it as “the Scottish play” instead.
Catch Macbeth at Stamford Arts CentrePeterborough Today
Schoolboy whose real name is Hamlet joins friends to play MacbethSurrey Comet
Chance to see bard’s bloodiest tragedySelby Times

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Carl Lumbly's return to stage a comfort after loss
San Francisco Chronicle
But Bay Area theater audiences may remember him better as an intensely driven serial killer, whether as Macbeth at Berkeley Rep in '97 or a sanctimonious death-row inmate in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train," five years ago at SF ...

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Lahainaluna High holds Shakespeare contest
Maui News
LAHAINA - Gaylord Paul Garcia offered a rendition of Lady Macbeth in capturing top honors in Lahainaluna High School's Shakespeare Monologue Competition held last month. The junior was one of five students competing in the annual competition.


 
Teens' play practice shot down
Shelbyville Times-Gazette
By DAVID MELSON ~ dmelson@tg.com But, for teens rehearsing William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," real life intermingled with the classic play -- and one actor was arrested. The thespians descended on HV Griffin Park Monday, armed with memorized lines and a ...