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Performing Arts: Theatre Macbeth

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Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the stage (he was a commanding theatre star for two decades before helming the Enterprise), expertly tracing Macbeth's descent from misguided ambition into paranoid madness. The set and sound design are revelatory: the Three Strange Sisters deliver their toil-and-trouble scene amid military corpses, and Lady Macbeth's seductions are interspersed with future-shock imagery and discomforting industrial noise, ratcheting up the play's already feverish pitch.

– Regina Bresler

Note: After a sold-out run at BAM, the play has moved to Broadway, and tickets are going fast.