RUNS MARCH 6TH - APRIL 27TH, 2025

A celebration of Shakespeare’s Scottish play and its myriad reimaginings, all of which examine the nature of power – and to what lengths we’ll go to attain and keep it. 

With innumerable revivals since its original performances in 1606, the New York Times writes “Macbeth is the most instantly accessible of Shakespeare’s tragedies: violent, elemental, familiar, short. No matter which way the story is bent, it maintains its recognizable human core of ambition and regret. Directors can emphasize its witchy aura, its bloodthirsty politics, its marital drama or critique of masculinity without endangering its essential stageworthiness.” 

Over the last few years, plays about Macbeth, alluding to Macbeth, invoking Macbeth and even the play Macbeth itself, have been on the S&S Short List for plays to do. At long last, rather than choose one, we have instead decided to take an innovative approach - and go all in. We are holding the first ever, to our knowledge, MacFestival -- two months of plays and events, lectures and artwork, that are tied to the dark and tormented Shakespearean tale about magic, desire, power and corruption. 

We will kick off the festival with an all-female and non-binary topical telling of the tale, lean and fast-paced. We then will morph into a site-specific journey to the depths of our beloved Historic Y, to present It Is Magic. The festival will include other MacBeth inspired plays, readings, lectures and activities such as macbitches and Peerless. We will wrap up the festival with Five Acts, Five Macs, a mini-festival in itself in which we invite other performing arts companies including Borderlands Theater, Saguaro City Music Theatre, Winding Road Theater Ensemble, and Unscrewed Theater to present their interpretation of an act via their expertise whether puppets, improv, music, physical theater, and more. 

Please note: Additional announcements regarding Macbeth-inspired film events will be forthcoming.