Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

“Macbeth” is littered with casualties — and not only on the fictional battlefield. The tragedy has taken down a battalion of the finest directors and actors, who have fallen victim to the play’s real ...

Excessive ambition proves disastrous in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” running at College of Marin’s James Dunn Theatre through Oct. 13. Fresh from victory over a combined Irish/Norwegian army, the show’s ...