Kenneth Branagh to make NY Stage debut with MACBETH

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 9:58am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kenneth-Branagh-to-Make-NY-Stage-Debut-in-MACBETH-at-Park-Avenue-Armory-June-2014-20130820

SO EXCITING!

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:08am

If only it was something besides MacBeth. Good grief! Three productions in less than two years?! There are so many other Shakespearean roles for leading men.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:20am

This was a critically acclaimed production from across the pond. So, that probably has something to do with it.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:24am

I know but we're just being inundated with productions of MacBeth. There is a saturation point.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:59am

Oh, I get it. But I'm sure that's why they're bringing this over instead of a different play.

Ethan Hawke must be quakin' in his boots right now.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 11:13am

I've always dreamed of seeing him on stage but I'll pass on this. There are so many other things he could have done besides a show that JUST closed, regardless of whether this is a transfer or not.

[CAX]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 11:28am

It's crazy. The man wrote a lot of other plays. Who needs ANOTHER mackers?!

[aaronb]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 1:38pm

Seriously. How about a nice WINTER'S TALE or PERICLES?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 2:11pm

I'd much rather see Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth than Leontes.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 2:16pm

If like to see him as Andre Leontes Talley.

[wonkit]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 2:25pm

WINTER's TALE - please let me see a great production of this some time soon -

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 2:41pm

The production of WINTER'S TALE directed by Michael Greif in the park a couple summers ago was quite good. I particularly enjoyed Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who is the best Paulina I've ever seen.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 3:06pm

atleast it wont be at the exact same time as the Lincoln Center production (im looking at both of you Romeo & Juliet productions)

[jerseygurl]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 6:59pm

Good. All of you can pass. More tix for the rest of us. Everyone I know who has seen it (American and British)calls it one of the most thrilling theatre experiences he or she had ever had.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/theater/something-wicked-this-way-runs.html?_r=0

[choitoy]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 7:50pm

I am totally changing my June plans from going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, to coming to NY now. I've been uber excited about this production, and I can't wait for the cinecast that NT Live is producing in October, but to see it live would be something else.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:54pm

Dr. Elizabeth Corday and River Song on the stage in NYC? Just take all my money.

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 3:22am

I don't get the "two many MacBeths" thing, really. Maybe it's cause I'm an opera fan, where seeing four or five productions of "Le Nozzie Di Figaro" in one metropolitan area within a year's span is pretty much the norm, but this seems like a gift rather than something to complain about. NYC will have the chance to see the same play in radically different ways, performed by three terrific actors, within the course of just a few months. Isn't that, like, a Theater fan's dream? It's certainly mine. I've been known to watch double bills of Shakespeare Movies. My last was a Olivier/McKellen RICHARD III double bill. It was awesome.

I tell you what, if you are so sick of all this good Shakespeare happening in New York....send a little bit to the Bay Area. We'll welcome it with open arms.

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 6:48am

I don't get the "two many MacBeths" thing, really.

Neither do I.

Not to mention that you don't have to see every single production of the work that's being presented. See the Hawke and skip Branagh. Or vice versa. Or see both. Or skip both. No one is forcing you to see anything you don't want to see.

I'm looking forward to seeing different perspectives from both upcoming Macbeth productions, just as I'm looking forward to seeing how David Leveaux and CSC handle Romeo and Juliet in different ways.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 8:50am

Is this like Monopoly? After the fifth "Macbeth" can you trade them in for a hotel?

Maybe "Grand Hotel" or "Hot L Baltimore?"

Add this to the list of "not right now, please":

Mabeth
Gypsy
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Sweeney Todd
Guys and Dolls
Picnic
Gypsy
Gypsy

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 9:21am

The environmental MacBeth is a "Yes, please, thank you very much, I don't mind if I do, charmed, I'm sure," in my book.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:48am

Blah. I love Macbeth but my interest is solely based on who plays Lady M, and Alex Kingston doesn't do it for me.

[aaronb]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 3:23pm

Of course we don't have to see it, but when some of Shakespeare's plays are underproduced, it'd be nice to get these great actors to appear in first-rate versions of those instead.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:26pm

I'm not sure why y'all are complaining...we have two great English actors (Branagh and Mark Rylance) coming over here to do Shakespeare in the same season, in addition to Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart doing Waiting for Godot/No Man's Land. It's an embarrassment of riches if you ask me. I'm thrilled the Branagh production is coming over, I love Macbeth but I don't really care for Ethan Hawke and I've never actually seen the play done traditionally.