Lady Macbeth’s famous soliloquy is fearsome to behold. In the speech—which appears in Act 1 Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth—Lady Macbeth resolves to kill Duncan, the King of Scotland, so Macbeth can ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains disturbing ...

Reporting from BERKELEY — Lady Macbeth is such a larger-than-life theatrical figure that it’s only natural that audiences would like more information about her than Shakespeare is willing to provide.

In the opening shots of “Lady Macbeth,” a bride (Florence Pugh) gazes upward through the mist of her veil, looking lovely, quietly curious and very young. In its final shots, she sits on a ...

SHAKESPEARE'S Lady Macbeth gets a raw deal, really. She may incite her husband to murder, but he’s the one who does the deed and doesn't know when to stop; it’s quite sad when she’s driven mad by ...

Many films have been made of “Macbeth” — probably less than “Hamlet” and more than “The Tempest” and “Othello” — and doubtless they’ll still be made to the last syllable of recorded time. As with most ...

This revival, worthy of the Met’s status as the greatest opera house in the world, doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Its classic plan for success includes a superstar cast, sensitive conducting, a ...