It’s been nearly three years since the Canadian Opera Company’s gut-wrenchingly satisfying production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

That’s why I suggest we all hail Lady Macbeth, queen of Scotland, queen of interesting pop culture and one day, a leader in real life. All that’s stopping that from happening are the dark ...

In our critics’ latest Fringe theatre round-up, the Scottish Play gets a musical revival on a netball court, while a show ...

Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was famously denounced in Pravda when premiered in 1934, after which it was condemned to silence; much later, in 1962, the composer revised and arguably ...

Why are critics called Lady Macbeth an exhilaratingly subversive feminist revenge film? In William Oldroyd’s debut feature, set in the 1860s, Katherine (Florence Pugh) is sold in marriage to a ...

So far this year, I have seen Shakespeare productions that had a disco theme or were in modern dress or set in a 1960s ...