A Manual Cinema show is hard to explain. It’s performed live, but it’s not quite a theater piece. It’s puppetry but not in the traditional sense. It’s cinema, as the company’s name suggests, yet ...

To quote “Macbeth,” “Blood will have blood.” Except nobody says that quote — or anything else — in “The 4th Witch,” Manual Cinema’s exhilarating new adaptation of the Scottish play. The play opens in ...

Director Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is a bewitching piece of craftsmanship, featuring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the... This 'Macbeth' adaptation distills Shakespeare's tragedy ...

To adequately convey the horror and suffering of war — particularly as they are inflicted on children — lies beyond the power of words. There’s no dialogue or narration in “The 4th Witch.” None is ...

Warrior. Striver. A bit discombobulated on what the witches are telling him, exactly. His ambitions trip him up and he manages to F everything up. But, hey, he's a warrior! Has moments of realization, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Great Lakes Theater is synonymous with Shakespeare, yet it hadn’t staged “Macbeth” since 2018. GLT’s new production, at the Hanna Theatre through April 4, is worth the wait, a ...