David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.

The production checks off each convention you might think belongs to non-Jamie Lloyd contemporary theatre one after the other ...

It’s Malcolm, King Duncan’s son, Macduff, and an English Army. I wouldn’t be seen dead in a bush! And Lady Macbeth? Well, she’s having laundry issues. Like hallo! Oh dear. But Macbeth’s ...

In the end, the Weird Sisters get a hold of exactly what they came for: Brains — Macbeth’s, and maybe ours too.

There’s no soft side to this Lady Macbeth. She’s not misunderstood ... as if he’d already entered the realm of the dead. The night’s biggest vocal surprise was tenor Kang Wang as Macduff ...

Lady Macbeth and the pregnant Lady Macduff are sisters (or cousins: it’s not clear). The latter’s free-spirited fecundity is a rebuke to the former, whose love and loyalty to her husband has ...