Jack Reynor has revealed director Justin Kurzel cast him in Macbeth without even hearing whether he could do a Scottish accent. The 23-year-old Irish actor stars alongside Michael Fassbender and ...

CANNES, France (AP) — Michael Fassbender doesn’t know if the “Macbeth” curse carries over to movie adaptations, but he’d rather not test it. “The Scottish film” is what Michael Fassbender calls his ...

Macbeth is a general who meets a trio of creepy witches who tell him he's going to be king, an ambition he never dared consider before. Their prophecy prompts his wife to persuade him to murder the ...

Power relations: Macbeth (Adam Best) and Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper) in Zinnie Harris's role-swapping rethink of ShakespeareStuart Armitt In Harris’s fascinating response to Shakespeare’s original, ...

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" ...

The return of the Scottish play (that’s “Macbeth” to the rest of you) is a reminder of the idiosyncratic rituals and routines that bring actors comfort. By Alexis Soloski Theaters are superstitious ...

This Omaha yard haunt takes visitors through the horrors of one of William Shakespeare's most famous pieces of work. The Scottish Graveyard features the three witches, who told Macbeth that he would ...

William Shakespeare would probably get a kick out of American politics over the last year and change. After all, one of Shakespeare's greatest hits was Macbeth, or, as the theatrical and superstitious ...