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PREVIEW: MACBETH: FEDERAL THEATRE: Professor James Shapiro, author "The Playbook," presents the national excitement at the Federal Theatre production of Macbeth in 1936- and how it launched the talents of two young actors, Orson Welles and John Houseman.

PREVIEW: MACBETH: FEDERAL THEATRE: Professor James Shapiro, author "The Playbook," presents the national excitement at the Federal Theatre production of Macbeth in 1936- and how it launched the talents of two young actors, Orson Welles and John Houseman.

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PREVIEW: MACBETH: FEDERAL THEATRE: Professor James Shapiro, author "The Playbook," presents the national excitement at the Federal Theatre production of Macbeth in 1936- and how it launched the talents of two young actors, Orson Welles and John Houseman. More tonight.



1936 Macbeth at the Lafayette thetr in Harlem
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PREVIEW: MACBETH: FEDERAL THEATRE: Professor James Shapiro, author "The Playbook," presents the national excitement at the Federal Theatre production of Macbeth in 1936- and how it launched the talents of two young actors, Orson Welles and John Houseman.

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