MILAN (AP) — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied ...

Politico faced backlash Friday as critics railed against its "hit piece" against Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis just days before her husband is expected to launch his 2024 presidential bid.

One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. By Maya Phillips “Macbeth” isn’t one of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays,” ...

Lady Macbeth is a 2016 period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and written by Alice Birch. The film’s story is based on the 1865 book Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov and ...

On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Toni Stone” encourages its titular baseball phenom to aim for the fences, and actor Kenya Mahogany Fashaw does just that in the Aurora Fox production ...

Director Christopher V. Edwards puts a mind-bending twist on a Shakespearean classic. Set in the early days of the conflict between Western democracies and the Soviet Union, this re-imagination of The ...

One of the most welcome trends in publishing in recent years has been its embrace of feminist retellings of classic literature, stories that reimagine famous works from female perspectives or that ...

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 outskirts of ...