This play is based on the historical account of Bridget Cleary — who was murdered for being an alleged witch — and blends fairy tales and folklore with actual historical events. To continue reading ...

In a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvisation. It is a ...

Whitney White’s thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare’s great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy women It’s tempting to say that by programming All Is ...

Meghan Kreidler, who fronts the Minneapolis rock band Kiss the Tiger, plays Lady Macbeth in the Guthrie Theater's "Macbeth" production through March 22. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, ...

For a company born of inventive stagings and eyebrow-raising recontextualizations—its Macbeth set to the music of Radiohead, for example, which runs through Feb. 22—Experience Theatre Project’s ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Long before Hollywood got involved, witches have been figures of fear and fascination in myth and ...

There are plenty of powerful women in Shakespeare - all-seeing riddlers, curse-spewing queens, dizzying wits - but it's hard to top the Weird Sisters of "Macbeth." The physics-bending, prophesying ...

Hinsdale Central High School’s drama department’s production of “Mac Beth,” an adaptation of the famous tragedy “Macbeth,” by William Shakespeare, is scheduled for performances at 7 p.m. Nov. 20-21 ...

What you nurture grows. And for a nameless girl at the center of Manual Cinema’s exquisitely creative tale “The 4th Witch,” her need to avenge the death of her parents becomes a rage-fueled, ...

To adequately convey the horror and suffering of war — particularly as they are inflicted on children — lies beyond the power of words. There’s no dialogue or narration in “The 4th Witch.” None is ...

Anthony Booker is affiliated with The British Pharmacopoeia, The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, The American Botanical Council, The British Herbal Medicine Association and The ...