Beaton's flawless 21st installment in her popular Hamish Macbeth series (after 2005's Death of a Bore) boasts amusing local color and singularly savvy sleuthing. Macbeth, constable in the Highlands ...

Among other chilling reactions you may experience after the viewing of Lady Macbeth, the new period drama from rookie director William Oldroyd that opens Friday at the Cedar Lee, is that it’s one of ...

The infamous witches of <i>Macbeth</i>, clockwise from lower left: Andrea Guidry (2007 graduate of UC Davis, with a degree in dramatic art), Ashley Bargenquast (second year, political science) and ...

On location with Macbeth, somewhere in England. It’s day 6 of 18, and the end of our first week. Remarkably, given that we have to average 8 minutes of completed drama a day, we’re on schedule and not ...

It’s Shakespeare like your High School English teacher never taught you. Hamlet and Macbeth are about a lot of things. Power and revenge. Madness and the otherworldly. But, when you get right down to ...

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, director Joel Coen slashes away at Shakespeare's text, distilling every scene to its furious essence. At 105 minutes, this is a shorter Macbeth movie than most. The ...

Macbeth is tense and anxious as he enters the banquet. It's important to think about this point because it will help you to understand how his mind could conjure up the terrible image of the ghost.

Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth tries to avoid a dreaded promotion while solving assorted crimes and crossing swords with pretty reporter Elspeth Grant in his episodic 18th outing (after 2002's ...