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Macbeth

Theater Review: “Macbeth” — Shakespeare Re-vamped

Most of the time, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Macbeth is compelling.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Erik Nikander, Macbeth, Migdalia Cruz

DVD Review: Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth” – A Paranoiac Fever Dream

Among the most haunting aspects of Roman Polanski’s 1971 film version of Macbeth is his visceral depiction of the tragedy’s violence.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Theater Tagged: Macbeth, Matt Hanson, Roman Polanski, The Criterion Collection, William-Shakespeare

Fuse Opera Review: A New Virtual Opera House in Town

This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it’s almost an hour shorter.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Brookline, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Culture Vulture, MA, Macbeth, Royal Opera House, Verdi

Classical Music Review: The Boston Lyric Opera — An Efficient and Satisfying “Macbeth”

The Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of “Macbeth,” with sets designed by John Conklin, is based on elements of a New York City Opera production and plays up the macabre elements of the story, which are many.

By: Jonthan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Macbeth, Shubert Theatre, Verdi

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2009

By Bill Marx October includes the usual line-up of plays by seal-of-approval dramatists, Edward Albee and Conor McPherson, but there’s some welcome new blood, from Punchdrunk’s athletic adaptation of “Macbeth” to “Little Black Dress,” playwright Ronan Noone’s latest salvo at our national psyche, and “The Overwhelming,” the Boston premiere of a critically acclaimed study of […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater, World Books Tagged: American-Repertory-Theatre, Bash, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Brandeis Theatre Company, Company One, Conor-McPherson, Edward Albee, Everything in the Garden, J. T. Rogers, Laurie Theater, LIttle Black Dress, Macbeth, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Neil-Labute, Publick-Theatre, Punchdrunk, Ronan-Noone, Shakespeare, Shawn LaCount, Shooting Stars, Sleep No More, Stephen Dietz, The Overwhelming, The Seafarer, Theater on Fire, Trinity Repertory Company, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

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