Australian director Justin Kurzel, a relative filmmaking newcomer, has brought to the screen a new version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The production, starring Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and ...

We may be risking everything by even mentioning the play’s name. Actors call it “The Scottish Play” because, allegedly, at its very first performance the young man playing the leading female role died ...

Othello – with its leading man, the Moor – is usually seen as the major opportunity for African-American theater professionals in the work of William Shakespeare. But the University of Missouri-St.

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The first Macbeth to make it to the big screen in decades is gorgeous to look at. Even the bloody battles, where the body counts from swords and daggers pile up -- play out like a beautiful, fevered ...