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Robeson doubled his fists, abandoned his studies and entered the concert hall by the stage door. His rich interpretations of spirituals rapidly brought him to London in 1930 as Othello and to Hollywood five years later in Show Boat. But the rewards could never assuage the early injuries...
...people, and its repertory sometimes offers as many as six different shows on the same day, a dozen within a single week. Guinness has been followed by Tony Winner Brian Bedford, two-time Oscar Winner Maggie Smith and, last year, Oscar Nominee Howard E. Rollins Jr. (Ragtime) as Othello...
...MCKELLEN won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus but is best-known in his native England as one in a four-centuries-long succession of Shakespearean actors that includes Richard Burbage (the first Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello), Sir John Gielgud and Paul Scofield. The players constitute something of a royal house--or at least are knighted pretty often...
...more than the thespian's usually large share of bravado, but he is also full of Shakespeare and good humor. One of the highlights of the show comes when McKellen challenges the audience to find a single happy marriage in Shakespeare's canon--and shoots down every suggestion--from Othello and Desdemona to Brutus and Portia--with a few witty retorts. "Romeo and Juliet?" McKellen muses, "Short and sweet...
Some CAST members say that there is a dearth of roles for Black actors in campus productions, citing a problem which many minority actors face in Hollywood. Unless the script specifically calls for Black characters--like Shakespeare's Othello or Alex Haley's Roots--Blacks usually aren't cast into plays. That's why Black CAST was created in the 1960s, says Sams, who calls the organization an "alternative drama experience...