Science Source Stock Photo - NYC, Lafayette Theatre, Opening of Macbeth, 1936

NYC, Lafayette Theatre, Opening of Macbeth, 1936

Description: Crowd outside the Lafayette Theatre at the opening of Macbeth. The Lafayette The Lafayette Theatre reached the height of its fame with the Voodoo Macbeth, a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, adapted and staged by Orson Welles that ran April 14-June 20, 1936 with an all African-American cast. The setting was changed from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island and acquired its nickname due to its use of voodoo imagery in place of the witchcraft in the original play. WPA Federal Theatre Project, 1936 (cropped and cleaned).

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NYPL/Schomburg Center/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS166581

Type: Image

Size: 5400px × 4138px (~63 MB)

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