Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble... With those iconic words in The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare created an indelible image of witches that endures to this day.

When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and ...

It’s the greatest treatise on bloodthirsty ambition ever written. Shakespeare’s Macbeth kills his king for his crown and then everyone else who crosses his path before being inevitably felled himself.

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is, among other things, visually gripping, a stark, haunting dreamscape that often seems to exist outside of time. While the film is carried by Denzel Washington ...

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 ...

From left, actors Josh Murray, Drew Cheek, Anson Ornery and Madelyn Johnson rehearse a fight and death scene. From left, Hannah Roark and Josh Murray listen as fight director Jeremy Riggs goes through ...

The early 17th century potboiler “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is the shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Director and adapter Joel Coen, working here without brother Ethan, took on this film version with ...