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Macbeth

July 2024

  • Rosemarie Akwafo (Nona) in Rough Magic at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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    Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience

  • Macbeth (An Undoing) Bojana Novakovic c Jeff Busby[1]

    Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M takes over Shakespeare’s play … but what for?

March 2024

  • ‘We needed a space to build a future’ … Dance House, Helsinki.

    ‘It’s a beehive’: Tero Saarinen’s mighty Macbeth puts Helsinki’s first dance house on the map

  • Behind the scenes with Sarah Jessica Parker as she prepares for her role as KAREN NASH / MURIEL TATE / NORMA HUBLEY in Plaza Suite at the Savoy Theatre, London. London. Photograph by David Levene 25/2/24. Additional processing by David McCoy, Guardian Imaging.

    Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

December 2023

  • David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth.

    The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review

    David Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the next dimension; and Woody Harrelson and co fire off David Ireland’s machine-gun provocations
  • David Tennant in Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse

    Sound and fury, signifying something: what made Macbeth so popular in 2023?

    Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant are among the stars playing Shakespeare’s Thane this year. Might the tragedy’s current popularity have something to do with the Tory government?

    • Macbeth review – David Tennant thrills in this high-concept production

    • The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

    • ‘I studied the play in school – I hated it’: Cush Jumbo and David Tennant on playing the Macbeths

November 2023

  • Intensely delivered … Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth.

    Macbeth review – Ralph Fiennes’ monstrous monarch wages war in a warehouse

    Staged in a hangar-like venue strewn with the charred remnants of battle, Simon Godwin’s intelligent production puts violent conflict to the fore

October 2023

  • Niamh Cusack stars in That Face.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

    Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

September 2023

  • Anne-Marie Duff as Lady Macbeth in the National Theatre’s 2018 production of Macbeth.

    The last word
    ‘You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself’: the best descriptions of ambition in literature

    The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on those who are determined to succeed this month, from Lady Macbeth to Flaubert’s privileged college boys
  • Mike Noble (Macbeth) and Laura Elsworthy (Lady Macbeth) next to a fridge door with knives on a magnetic strip

    Macbeth review – zombies, haggis and a little bit of disco

    Horror-movie witches haunt the unhappy couple throughout this touring co-production. It’s one of many interesting ideas that are dropped too soon
  • Valene Kane and Reuben Joseph in Macbeth.

    Macbeth review – a strenuously fresh reading with one-liners by Stewart Lee

    Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office

August 2023

  • Summer madness … Max Bennett and the male witches in Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe.

    Macbeth review – Max Bennett’s jokey king is clearly unfit to govern

    Gender swapped roles shed new light on dark days in a production – complete with gruesome bodybags and references to fake news – that feels aptly aligned to our times

July 2023

  • The key-jangling Porter in a detail from the RSC poster by Ralph Steadman

    Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth

    The stand-up comedian describes how he gave a modern twist to the Porter’s dark jokes in a new RSC production directed by Wils Wilson

June 2023

  • Judi Dench with her friend Brendan O’Hea

    ‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play

    The Oscar-winning star discusses her Shakespearean roles and the characters she brought to life in watercolours in her new book
  • Every Scottish actor wants to play Macbeth … Reuben Joseph (centre) as Hamilton.

    Hamilton star Reuben Joseph to play Macbeth for the RSC

    The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical
  • Samira Wiley in Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

    Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time

May 2023

  • Cush Jumbo.

    Cush Jumbo to join David Tennant in Macbeth at London’s Donmar Warehouse

    The actor, who has previously starred as Hamlet at the Young Vic, is to play Lady Macbeth among a wave of star-powered Shakespeare productions this year
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