Ahead of her anticipated debut this week on Law & Order: Organized Crime, Jennifer Beals teases “there’s a little Lady Macbeth happening” when it comes to her character as the wife of drug kingpin ...

Denzel Washington takes on the title character in Joel Coen's Bard-based film, The Tragedy of Macbeth, with murder-minded Lady Macbeth played by Coen's wife, Frances McDormand. This year has had lots ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth is both a dramatic portrayal of a famous Shakespearean character and a self-portrait. This ...

Irish Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga was last in New York playing Hamlet in a sold out, critically acclaimed run - but this month she's back in another play by Shakespeare, this time as Lady Macbeth ...