takes have come to feel more rare than “creative” ones. Voodoo Macbeth’s most significant shift (Welles’s all-black cast has been nixed) is the beefing up of the role of Hecate (William Hayes) into ...

Jack O’Brien’s flashy staging of “Macbeth,” which opened Thursday at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont, isn’t the Bard for Dummies. But it does help if you know less about Shakespeare and more ...

She is the goddess of witchcraft, calling herself "the close contriver of all harms." But the character of Hecate is all too often cut from Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Not so in the production opening ...