If Shakespeare’s Macbeth gave you the impression that “Lady Macbeth” was based on a single, fully documented person, you’re ...

Lady Macbeth is one of the most famous female villains in all of literary history. Yet, despite her infamy, her tale has glaring gaps and misrepresentations. For the uninitiated, Shakespeare's Macbeth ...

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 ...

One of the most welcome trends in publishing in recent years has been its embrace of feminist retellings of classic literature, stories that reimagine famous works from female perspectives or that ...

Making a ballet out of Shakespeare's 400-year-old play Macbeth gave choreographer Alice Topp the chance to create something ...

Her character is sympathetic at the start of the movie and sociopathic by the end, but Pugh's genius is that she never changes a thing. There aren’t very many words spoken in William Oldroyd’s “Lady ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are the main characters and their ambition and eventual ...

On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...