Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich’s failure to write more operas. After Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ...

Alex Austin in Macbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre The first scene introduces the potential of a sophisticated vision: Lady Macbeth is mournfully disposing of baby clothes ...

Combining high school netball with Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth isn't the most obvious idea for a musical. But Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence, the latest work from Western Australia's Crash ...

Before the performance even began, the theatre was bathed in a sepia glow, setting an eerie tone. Then, a phone rings - a voice note left on Lady Macbeth’s phone. That single moment sets the stage for ...

NARRATOR: In the castle Macbeth is put into his armour… FX: Clink of armour. MACBETH: You - tell my lady I am about to leave for battle. BODYGUARD: Yes, my lord. MACBETH: Are the flags flying?

The modern-dress show opens not with Scottish lord Macbeth putting down the Thane of Cawdor’s rebellion against King Duncan and then encountering three witches, but with his wife Lady Macbeth ...

Night in Dunsinane Castle. Lady Macbeth's servant has summoned a doctor to witness her mistress sleep-walking. It is clear that Lady Macbeth is deeply troubled. In England Malcolm and Macduff have ...

Andy Votel talks to John Doran about the story of Polish film composer and leftfield music pioneer Andrzej Korzynski and his "freer than space jazz" synthesiser music Roman Polanski's adaptation of a ...

Italian theater director Paolo Sacerdoti is making his gaming debut with “Hail Macbeth,” an interactive adaptation of Shakespeare‘s tragedy that blurs the line between player, character and ...

Roman Polanski remains one of the most controversial and reprehensible figures in the film industry, embodying the insidious side of Hollywood that protects and enables abusers. This toxic culture has ...

One of the twentieth century’s greatest exponents of Lady Macbeth, Shirley Verrett, did all that, with a zwischenfach mezzo-ish color to boot. And then there’s that high D in the sleepwalking scene.