EXCLUSIVE: Playbill Inc. has named Jolie Schaffzin as Publisher of Playbill magazine, the theater magazine and guide. A veteran of the publication with 27 years of service, Schaffzin becomes the ...

asks one of three witches in the new show “Macbeth in Stride.” Whitney White, who stars as Lady Macbeth in this quasi-feminist concert reimagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, smugly ...

As the story goes, saying “Macbeth” in a theater when you’re not rehearsing or performing the play can cause disaster to befall the production. Instead, actors commonly refer to it as “the ...

Welcome to PLAYBILLDER Spotlight, where Playbill highlights shows from educational institutions or regional theatres and special events around the country (who have used Playbill's program ...

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 ...

There's an old myth in the theater world that Shakespeare's Macbeth is cursed, and any theatre company who tries to put it on will endure some sort of misfortune during the production. One area ...

“Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater. The stage is littered with “Macbeth” disasters. Other plays may have an equally ...

The ambitious project stars Cannes best actress winner Zar Amir (“Holy Spider”) as Lady Macbeth, with her Paris-based Alambic Production co-producing. A French-Iranian actor who was named to ...

Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue ...

The arc of Lady Macbeth is reimagined as the story of an ambitious Black woman, told through her own contemporary perspective of femininity, desire, and power with a capital P. Dazzlingly ...

Just in time for Halloween, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison is offering an intense “Macbeth” served up with extra scares. Shakespeare consistently treated places on the ...

This retelling of the classic Scottish play puts the iconic Lady Macbeth at the heart of the story. When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he is to become ...