The Youngstown Playhouse presents Blackheart Arts: Lady Lord Macbeth, on Friday, June 27th and Saturday, the 28th, at 7:30 pm each evening. Lady Lord Macbeth is a new reimagining of the Shakespeare classic, pared down to simply the Lady and Lord Macbeth. In this show, the audience is invited into the private plottings of this entwined couple as they grapple with the ambition, power, and rage at the very heart of their fated and tragic journey to the throne of Scotland. More informatkion at youngstownplayhouse.org.

Created using only the original words from the Bard himself, Lady Lord Macbeth examines the love at the core of the central relationship within Macbeth, deepening the connections to their marriage and failed attempts at parenthood.

Lady Lord Macbeth was conceived by Pittsburgh artists Alyssa Herron and Brett Sullivan Santry, who perform in the titular roles. Santry, a graduate of the renowned Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare in Performance Master’s degree program, is a veteran Shakespeare performer and educator. He says “this play was a labor of love for the two of us and our other collaborators, as we’ve never been satisfied with all the various ways the relationship between Lord and Lady Macbeth have been portrayed.”