Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

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 ...

Director William Oldroyd’s debut feature “Lady Macbeth” returns, again and again, to a single shot: Florence Pugh, as Katherine, a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with a sexually ...

Whitney White as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth in Stride" at the American Repertory Theater. (Courtesy Lauren Miller) Singing witches, a little bit of rock 'n' roll and a whole lot of gospel mark actor and ...

William Oldroyd’s astoundingly assured debut Lady Macbeth may be devoid of any Shakespearean lineage, but this unconventional Victorian chamber piece is just as scintillating as its Scottish namesake.

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 theater synonymous ...

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Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are the main characters and their ambition and eventual ...

Exact and exacting, made with formidable skill and unwavering focus, “Lady Macbeth” is a film that demands to be admired and cares little if you actually like it. A cold and unnerving tale of the twin ...