On Sunday, July 10, The Classical Theatre of Harlem development@cthnyc.org opened their production of Macbeth at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. City Councilman Mark Levine welcomed their crowd of about 1,000 audience members including our friends from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the Harlem Community Development Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and other supporting organizations and guests from as near as across the street to as far a the United Kingdom. If you have not yet seen the production, I hope you will select a date and join us in the audience.
This is part of a Reveiw From Time-Out: “Set in 20th-century Ethiopia—implied by Rachel Dozier-Ezell’s smashing militarist costumes, Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s African-infused choreography and a percussion-heavy onstage band—this one-act truncation speeds by. Familiarity with the story helps though all of the celebrated soliloquies are there, with Ruff’s climactic sleepwalking speech and Jones’s spirit-fueled breakdown particularly effective. ……….this multicultural Macbeth delivers goose bumps.—Raven Snook”
The production will run now through July 31, 2016, Tuesdays-Sundays, 8:00pm. Click here to reserve your seats
Photograph: Lelund Durond Thompson
