The three teenage actors on stage are working through Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” a crucial scene in the tragedy. Lady Macbeth, tormented by guilt and sleepwalking, can’t clean her hands of the deaths of King Duncan and others who have stood in the way of the ambitions of her and her husband. […]
Macbeth
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Theater review: WallByrd’s ‘Macbeth’
It takes all of five minutes for a fight to break out. As the lights dim in the grand Lyric Theatre, a bass-driven rock song blares and cast members in dystopian military garb rush the stage. A battle ensues, and only the strong survive. Such a violent beginning for WallByrd’s latest show, “Macbeth,” establishes two […]
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Film review: “Macbeth”
Undeterred, Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, making only
his second feature after “The Snowtown Murders,” delivers an oppressively bleak
take on the familiar tale.
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Bringing out the stars of musical comedy
If there is a musical comedy masterpiece, it is Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, and Jo Swerling’s Guys and Dolls. Swerling and Burrows’book adapts Damon Runyon’s stories offunny, flavorful lowlifes with wit and zest. Loesser’s tasty lyrics and wonderful music are even better in the plot-oriented songs that have no life outside this show than the […]
