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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles brings the spirit of the Halloween season to ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Verdi's opera is every bit as dark and bloody as Shakespeare's drama on ...