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Orson Welles' All-Black Version of 'Macbeth' Excited Theatergoers Nationwide
Photograph of Jack Carter (Macbeth), Kenneth Renwick (Second Murderer) and George Nixon (First Murderer) in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem. Library of Congress On the night of April 14, 1936, traffic on …