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Macbeth Broadway:
Macbeth plays at Barrymore Theatre
243 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036
Between Broaday and 8th Ave.- Map
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Tony Award® winner (Cabaret) and two-time Emmy nominee (“The Good Wife”) Alan Cumming has returned to Broadway in a “bravura performance” (Entertainment Weekly) of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedy, Macbeth.
Directed by Tony winner John Tiffany (Once) and Andrew Goldberg, this “stirring turn by Alan Cumming packing theatrical thunder and lightning” (Daily News) is set in a clinical room deep within a dark psychiatric unit. Cumming is the lone patient, reliving the infamous story and inhabiting each role himself. Closed circuit television camera watch the patient's every move as the walls of the psychiatric ward come to life in a visually stunning multi-media theatrical experience.
You cannot miss Alan Cumming in this breathtaking 100-minute “radical re-imagining” (Variety) of Shakespeare’s notorious tale of desire, ambition and the supernatural.
"ALAN CUMMING DELIVERS A TOUR-DE-FORCE THAT REDEFINES THE TERM!"
- Associated Press
"MESMERIZING THEATER. IT HITS THE DAMNED SPOT."
- Entertainment Weekly
"A TRIUMPH! ALAN CUMMING IS DAZZLING."
- Newsday
"THRILLING & WICKED SMART."
- New York Magazine
WINNER! BEST ACTOR (Alan Cumming) & BEST PLAY REVIVAL Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards
Macbeth Cast Members: Alan Cumming
Macbeth Creative Team
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg
Producer: Ken Davenport
Running Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission
Audience : May be inappropriate for 13 and under. (This production includes nudity and violent subject matter that may be inappropriate for younger audiences.)
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