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Macbeth review – Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga soar but there’s magic missing

Sam Gold’s inventively staged take on the classic tragedy has its moments but there’s something missing at the centre

The Guardian - US

At ‘Macbeth,' Daniel Craig, Ruth Negga on the unspoken word

The most commonly held taboo in the arts is uttering the word “Macbeth” inside a theater

The Independent UK

'Bloody-hunting slaughtermen', sieges and 'lechery': what does Shakespeare tell us of war?

Only two days separate Anzac Day and Shakespeare’s (presumed) birthday and actual death-day. This proximity is coincidental. But amid a war in Ukraine, being reported in horrifyingly graphic detail from the point of view of the victims, and given Shakespeare is the world’s most-quoted, most-performed and most studied writer, it…

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Dan Stevens: ‘People thought I was crazy’

This was the response when the actor famously left Downton Abbey at its height, fearful of being typecast as a floppy-haired aristo. Now based in LA, he’s starring in everything from comedy and horror to a new series about Watergate

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant to play Macbeth in new radio drama

He will be joined by Daniela Nardini as Lady Macbeth, Stuart McQuarrie as Banquo, and Alec Newman as Macduff.

The Independent UK

COVID-19 Temporarily Stops Daniel Craig’s Return to Broadway

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play? Daniel Craig's return to Broadway in a new version of “Macbeth” has been temporarily halted after the actor contracted COVID-19. Wednesday's matinee and evening performances were canceled when the James Bond actor tested positive. When he'll returns was not immediately known,…

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Chris Rock 'cheek pad' claim and other Will Smith smack conspiracy theories debunked

Some Oscars viewers claimed Chris Rock was wearing something on his face after a photo emerged - but it doesn’t all stack up

Daily Mirror

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Did Chris Rock suffer the curse of the Scottish Play? ‘Macbeth’ theory gains traction on Twitter

An ancient superstition holds that saying the name of the play in a theatre – as Chris Rock did just before Will Smith’s slap – triggers a terrible curse

The Independent UK

Twitter users think 'Macbeth' curse caused Will Smith and Chris Rock Oscars slap

According to folklore, via the Royal Shakespeare Company, the tragedy was cursed from the very beginning, when a coven of witches opposed Shakespeare's use of real sorcery in the text.

Daily Record

Did Chris Rock suffer the curse of the Scottish Play? ‘Macbeth’ theory gains traction on Twitter

An ancient superstition holds that saying the name of the play in a theatre – as Chris Rock did just before Will Smith’s slap – triggers a terrible curse

The Independent UK

Oscars 2022: Will Smith not facing charges for slapping Chris Rock, says LAPD, as Academy releases statement – as it happened

Family drama Coda won best picture at a ceremony that was overshadowed by Will Smith attacking Chris Rock

The Guardian - UK

‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump

Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – an excess of sound and fury

Efforts to make Shakespeare accessible to all rub against confused staging and wayward delivery in Amy Leach’s ambitious production

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth review – a wicked thriller this way comes

With striking stage design and compelling leads, Amy Leach directs a triumphant version of Shakespeare’s tale of murderous deeds

The Guardian - UK

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Patrick Stewart says during year-long Macbeth run he would ‘go straight home and drink alcohol until he passed out’

Actor confesses he had ‘difficult patches’ when he was playing Shakespeare’s Scottish general

The Guardian - UK

Patrick Stewart: ‘I’d go straight home and drink until I passed out’

As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as an intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during an exhausting Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of his memoir

The Guardian - UK

No, Carrie Johnson is not a modern Lady Macbeth. She’s an enormous red herring

The prime minister’s wife gets a rough ride in Michael Ashcroft’s new biography. But many of her defenders couldn’t care less about fairness or decency

The Conversation

Carrie Johnson and our lasting unease about the 'political spouse'

In what have been a turbulent few weeks for Boris Johnson, the imminent release of Lord Ashcroft’s biography of the prime minister’s wife is adding to his woes.

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Kathryn Hunter on becoming Denzel Washington’s BFF, her new absurdist play and doing King Lear (again)

One of our most well-respected theatre stars is getting worldwide acclaim for her big screen role in Macbeth - but Kathryn Hunter is heading straight back to the stage

The Independent UK

Denzel Washington breaks his own record for most-nominated Black actor in Oscars history

Washington bagged his 10th Oscar nomination for his role as Macbeth in Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

Tribune News Service

Lorna Watson ready to expand on Sister Boniface character

Not every young actress gets to play Lady Macbeth or Blanche DuBois when they’re starting out. Take British performer Lorna Watson for example. One of her first jobs was dressing up as a giant strawberry at Wimbledon. “I did work at a rugby stadium too and I had to dress…

The Independent UK

The Tragedy of Macbeth’s Kathryn Hunter: ‘The car crash wasn’t an accident – it was a suicide attempt’

The award-winning stage actor gives one of the standout performances in Joel Coen’s film and is about to star on the London stage in ‘The Chairs’. But things might have turned out very differently, she tells Sarah Crompton, as she urges, ‘If you are feeling suicidal, get help, get help,…

Daily Record

Macbeth child star follows family tradition as she bids to be crowned Miss Teen GB

Lanarkshire's Amber Rissmann has won a place in the semi-finals of the national beauty competition

The Guardian - UK

Macbeth movies have been foul and fair – Joel Coen’s is a stunner

The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic

Los Angeles Times

What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies

The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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