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Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

Efforts to make Shakespeare accessible to all rub against confused staging and wayward delivery in Amy Leach’s ambitious production

In what have been a turbulent few weeks for Boris Johnson, the imminent release of Lord Ashcroft’s biography of the prime minister’s wife is adding to his woes.

One of our most well-respected theatre stars is getting worldwide acclaim for her big screen role in Macbeth - but Kathryn Hunter is heading straight back to the stage

Washington bagged his 10th Oscar nomination for his role as Macbeth in Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

Not every young actress gets to play Lady Macbeth or Blanche DuBois when they’re starting out. Take British performer Lorna Watson for example. One of her first jobs was dressing up as a giant strawberry at Wimbledon. “I did work at a rugby stadium too and I had to dress…

The award-winning stage actor gives one of the standout performances in Joel Coen’s film and is about to star on the London stage in ‘The Chairs’. But things might have turned out very differently, she tells Sarah Crompton, as she urges, ‘If you are feeling suicidal, get help, get help,…

Lanarkshire's Amber Rissmann has won a place in the semi-finals of the national beauty competition

The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic