The Latest Breaking News from Macbeth

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

There’s something Shakespearean about the character Hope Davis plays on the Showtime drama “Your Honor.” As the wife of a crime boss, “she’s a Lady Macbeth and she’s very frustrated with how her husband is executing things, so she gets her hands dirty,” said Davis. “It’s really delicious to play…

Actors aside, only the foolhardy can now say yes to a gong in the debased era of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson

ZINNIE Harris is one of Scotland’s most accomplished playwrights.