One of history's greatest playwrights was William Shakespeare. In his play 'Macbeth,” three witches predict tragedy for the titular general.

Halloween is nigh upon us, and that creak you hear in the dark is the step of the fiend … Macbeth? Theatergoers like to be scared just like anybody else. So it’s no wonder that the Orla… ...

Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights hath thirty one Sweltered venom sleeping got, Boil first in the charmed pot. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

The Three Witches Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog ...

Macbeth (Axle Burtness), a high-ranking soldier who embraces the witches’ prediction that he will eventually rule Scotland, kills his relative King Duncan (Jeff Clevenger) to speed the process ...

Kathryn Hunter, who plays the witches in Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' discusses real witches, Denzel Washington, and iconic lines.

The witches come in all shapes, sizes and sexes. Consider the atypical trio playing the weird sisters alongside Ethan Hawke in “Macbeth” at Lincoln Center — three dudes.

The witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth equivocate between the demons of random malevolence and ordinary (if exceptionally nasty) old women; and both King James I, whose book on witchcraft may have ...