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Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
Metacritic45/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Agazi DestaWriter
- Amri RigbyWriter
- Jennifer FrazinWriter
- Joel David SantnerWriter
- Erica SutherlinWriter
- Morgan MilenderWriter
- Molly MillerWriter
- Chris TarriconeWriter
- Dagmawi AbebeDirector
- Agazi DestaDirector
- Victor Alonso-BerbelDirector
- Tiffany Kontoyiannis-GuillenDirector
- Roy ArwasDirector
- Zoë Alyce SalnaveDirector
- Hannah BangDirector
- Ernesto M. SandovalDirector
- Christopher BeatonDirector
- Sabina VajračaDirector
Cast
- Inger TudorRose McClendon
- Jewell Wilson BridgesOrson Welles
- Jeremy TardyMaurice
- June SchreinerVirginia Welles
- Daniel KuhlmanJohn Houseman
- Wrekless WatsonCuba Johnson
- Ashli HaynesEdna Thomas
- Gary McDonaldJack Carter
- Hunter BodineMartin Dies
- Ephraim LópezJuano Hernandez
- Gabriel SousaPeter
- David Thomas NewmanTweedledum
Stills
Themes
theater play1930s