The Lady Macbeth theme of ambitious women being unnatural, morally bankrupt, ruthless and manipulative is a serious misrepresentation of female politicians. This negative portrayal is a barrier to ...

Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue ...

Lady Roscille is a foreign 17-year-old girl rumored to have eyes that enchant men to their graves. Sent to Glammis to marry Macbeth, the brute warlord with a past of dabbling in the dark arts, it ...

Lady Macbeth is as relevant to men as she is to women. When those school heads refer to ambition, they are asking for their pupils to be encouraged and enthused.

Between a new stage play and book — Zinnie Harris's Macbeth (An Undoing) and Val McDermid’s Queen Macbeth — Lady M has finally gotten out of that damned spot.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Oper Leipzig review — sonic sex and violence at full blast. Francisco Negrin’s production steers away from graphic stage pictures ...

Most of “All Our Yesterdays” takes place within the reflections of Lady Macbeth and her son. Besides Lady Macbeth marrying Macbeth at the beginning of the book, not much action actually occurs.

Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most well-known and powerful female characters. She is often seen as a smart, ruthless figure, but one who miscalculates what she can get away with.

As Indira Varma can attest, inhabiting Lady Macbeth eight times a week — in a production spanning four cities and five months, no less — is a gratifying but taxing affair. For instance: After ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Pornophony,” declared the critics at the New York premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of ...

Tenor Brenden Gunnell (Sergei), soprano Kristine Opolais (Katerina), and bass Günther Groissböck (Boris) in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concert performance of Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of ...

As the summer portion of La Scala’s 2022–23 season concluded this July, she returned to Italy’s leading opera house for what may now be her best role, Lady Macbeth in Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation of ...