Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble... With those iconic words in The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare created an indelible image of witches that endures to this day.

Portraying the three witches in the Actors Circle production of ‘Macbeth’ are Leba Lanton, Linda C. Griffiths, and Laura Doyle. Shown are cast members, from left, first row: Aimée Novak, Tommy Tomeo, ...

One of history's greatest playwrights was William Shakespeare. In his play 'Macbeth,” three witches predict tragedy for the titular general. In this excerpt from Act IV, Scene I, the 'weird sisters” ...

Although there is clearly more than one of them, the Witches may be seen as seem as a single character; they are often referred to as "The Weird Sisters". How are the Witches like this? The Witches ...

When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and ...

How pared down is Declan Donnellan’s “Macbeth”? The Witches don’t huddle around a cauldron, because there isn’t one. In fact, there are no props and no Witches — the “weird sisters” are reduced to ...

Ethan Hawke has been surprising theatergoers for years, plugging his febrile, hot-wired persona into memorable performances of Shakespeare and Chekhov, Sam Shepard and Tom Stoppard. Director Jack ...

If there were a Williams-Sonoma for witches, the cauldron in Synetic Theater's wordless "Macbeth" would be a bestseller. Consider: In an early moment of this darkly incantatory production, Shakespeare ...