Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' heads to Broadway

Lifestyle February 01, 2013

Alan Cumming's 1-man 'Macbeth' heads to Broadway

Photo: AP Alan Cumming in "Macbeth." In the play, Cumming appears as a patient in a white-tiled mental hospital for whom the plot of "Macbeth is sort of a schizophrenic nightmare. Producers said Friday that the Tony Award winning Scottish actor will bring his one-man “Macbeth to Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre beginning April 7. It will run through June 30.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Cumming is taking his Macbeth to Broadway — and his Macduff and Duncan and the three witches.

Producers said Friday that the Tony Award-winning Scottish actor will bring his one-man "Macbeth" to Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre beginning April 7. It will run through June 30. The production comes from the National Theatre of Scotland via the Lincoln Center Festival

In the play, "The Good Wife" actor appears as a patient in a white-tiled mental hospital for whom the plot of "Macbeth" is sort of a schizophrenic nightmare. Two other actors play medical staff but speak few lines.

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