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...stage manager, brought his Shakespeareans out of a Lower East Side Sunday-school room and began drawing crowds to an amphitheater in Manhattan's East River Park. He moved the following year to Central Park with fine productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, settling down with apparent permanence and the blessing of Moses. But before long, a celebrated feud arose in which the commissioner tried to force Papp to charge admission, claiming that festival audiences were damaging Central Park's crab grass. Papp took the case to court...
Jets rising from Idlewild often drop their whining anapests into the flow of Elizabethan iambs. But Shakespearean effects can also be heightened by outdoor production. During one festival performance of Macbeth, deep grey thunderheads compiled themselves overhead as Birnam wood moved to high Dunsinane hill; the branches of the plane trees around and above the stage began to sway and whip; and when Macbeth finally faced Macduff on the ramparts, it was a battle fought in lightning and horizontal rain...
Stratford, Conn, American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida...
...getting there fast. Shopkeepers unearthed yellowed 1940 newspapers and put them on display as a reminder of the last time the Reds won a pennant. Music lovers carried transistor radios to the Cincinnati Zoo's summer opera to hear the score between arias of Verdi's Macbeth. Attendance at Crosley Field was up 24% over last year, headed for a million-season mark as 431,683 went to see the Reds' first 38 home games...