Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian June 19, 2014 At 27 storeys tall, the Balfron Tower stands in the shadow of Canary Wharf; a building that once stood as a monument to idealism in social housing, now reduced to a crumbling obelisk in the east London skyline. But, at least temporarily, the decaying flats and empty walkways of the high-rise block, designed by […]
Matt Windman, AM New York May 21, 2014 Taking into account all the productions of “Macbeth” over the past year (including Alan Cumming’s perplexing one-man version and Lincoln Center Theater’s embarrassing staging with Ethan Hawke), plus the fact that another is about to open with Kenneth Branagh, it feels good to take a pause, drink a beer and just laugh […]
Esther Zuckerman, The Wire May 14, 2014 Today we got our first glance at Michael Fassbender’s Macbeth, in the form of a poster out of Cannes. Of course, Fassbender is not only the latest star to play the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, but also the latest member of the X-Men to play the part. As others have realized—and McKellen himself […]
BWW News Desk, Broadway World May 11, 2014 The City Shakespeare Company invites the public to a staged reading of their feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth on May 22, 2014. The film will shoot September in Boulder, Colorado and is already funded and partially cast. For the last year, The City Shakespeare Company (City Shakes) has been quietly and […]
BBC May 1, 2014 The lead role is filled by Michael Fassbender, who is soon to be seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past – opposite three other actors who have played the troubled Scottish king. Fassbender will appear as Macbeth next year in director Justin Kurzel’s big screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Iain Canning, […]
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