Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady Macbeth and that damned spot. The wonderful Wilfrid ...

Poor Macbeth. Henpecked, manipulated and always upstaged by his wife. Who would have thought Shakespeare’s most murderous villain would continue to take a back seat to one of literature’s fabulous ...

In its opening scenes, it seems like Lady Macbeth has been mistitled. Somewhere in a gloomy, windswept, rural corner of Victorian England, Anna (Naomi Ackie) prepares the young Katherine (Florence ...

So, what do you want to read about first — the corset, or when the corset came off? Yeah, we know. But we’ll start with the corset anyway. English actress Florence Pugh plays the title role in the new ...

Newcomer Florence Pugh makes quite an impression in “Lady Macbeth,” the downright wicked retelling of Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella. With quiet menace, Pugh chews through director William Oldroyd’s ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...