But you could hear the hunger in her diabolical second act, “Si colmi il calice,” drunk on power and wishing death to sorrow. There’s no soft side to this Lady Macbeth. She’s not ...

Four centuries on, his influence echoes through not only stage and screen, but also in the pages of novels that reimagine, ...

A student-led Shakespeare company, What You Will Theatre, staged a production of “Macbeth” with a Wild West twist. It held performances at the Illini Union on Friday and Saturday. “It’s basically a ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. In the beginning, Macbeth is manipulated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who encourages his ambition ...

Photograph of Jack Carter (Macbeth), Kenneth Renwick (Second Murderer) and George Nixon (First Murderer) in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem.

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 ...