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...That was the question, whether American Actor-Director < Sam Wanamaker (Raw Deal) was going to realize his 30-year-old dream of rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe Theater. That hallowed arena on the south bank of the Thames probably held the first productions of King Lear and Macbeth before it burned to the ground in 1613. Wanamaker first visited the site in 1949, found only a brass plaque on a wall beside the debris-strewn riverbank and felt, "well, outrage." Over the years he and his Shakespeare Globe Trust faced the slings and arrows of competition from other restoration drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 21, 1986 | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...challenging. His mother was a grade-school teacher, his father a professor of Italian literature. Scalia attended St. Francis Xavier High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan, where he was an officer in the JROTC, directed the marching band - and played the title role in the school production of Macbeth. ("Don't let the ribbing get to you," he told the mortified younger boy playing Lady Macbeth, who still remembers this small act of kindness.) He tied for first in his class. He went on to Georgetown University, becoming valedictorian, and then attended Harvard Law School, where he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warm Spirits, Cold Logic | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...Drama Company (HRDC)productions on the Loeb mainstage, Moore has beena campus superstar. A Lowell House resident, hehas spent two summers at HRDC summer theater andtoured Europe a third summer as a featuredperformer in the A.R.T.'s production of KingStag. Among his many roles he counts hisrendition of Lady Macbeth in Rauch's highlyoriginal Medea, Macbeth, Cinderella andRichard in Ronis's Richard the Second ashis personal favorites...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Tale of Two Actors | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

Acting captivates Sheedy, and she wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...Scottish play by Shakespeare," says Bienstock. "Macbeth," says Seevak. "You just spoiled tonite's performance by saying it," says Silver...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Opening Night Anxiety Reaches Wuthering Heights | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

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