I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying. But not as dissatisfying as I found Ben Brantley’s review thereof. Not that I disagree with all of Brantley’s complaints, ...

The Coen brothers’ longtime composer Carter Burwell said Saturday that scoring Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth was much different from their other movies. Usually the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “It’s just coincidence,” Philip Kerr says of the superstitions that swirl around Shakespeare’s ...

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Giuseppe Verdi called the opera his “best beloved child,” but audiences have consistently agreed with George Bernard Shaw, who sneered that Verdi tried to turn Shakespeare’s tragedy into another ...