Great Performances

Season 42, Episode 7

Episode Title: Macbeth

Air Date: 2015-02-01

Overview:

Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife, has been rethought in vivid filmic terms.