Alan Cumming, Scottish native and Shakespeare aficionado, is going back to his roots next year in a big way, announcing that he's undertaking a one-man production of Macbeth in which he will play all the parts. Double, double toil and trouble for the original "Scottish play," indeed! more ›

Nepotism doesn't mix with library book picks, apparently! According to the NY Times, Brooklyn Tech High School librarian Robert Grandt paid a $500 and admitted to violated the city ethics code after promoting a graphic novel his daughter helped illustrate. Grandt, an educator for 39 years, called a manga version of Shakespeare's Macbeth a "Best New Book" pick in his newsletter and "Best Book Ever Written" in a library display of copies he donated. He said to the Times, "I’m supposed to, as part of my job, display new books and encourage the kids to read new books. So here, I displayed my daughter’s book and encouraged the kids to read it and am told that I had done something illegal.” He has since removed the book from the shelves. Next up for Brooklyn Tech kids: College, where they will be required to buy their college professors' books for courses. more ›

It’s hard to imagine a production of Macbeth with more sound and fury than the outré adaptation currently battering audiences on the Brooklyn waterfront in DUMBO. Two parts Shakespeare and one part Ridley Scott, this visionary spectacle is the work of Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna and the TR Warszawa theater company; it’s being staged outdoors in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge with a cast of 32 actors on a 36-foot-high set built specifically for the production. more ›