The Latest Breaking News from Macbeth

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

With striking stage design and compelling leads, Amy Leach directs a triumphant version of Shakespeare’s tale of murderous deeds

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

The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.