Macbeth - Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Joe Dziemianowicz
  from New York Daily News
  April 21, 2013

  ‘‘Directors John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg layer the production with spooky sounds and moody music and keep Cumming on the move—he races up stairs, climbs atop tables, gazes into a mirror and gets chatty with a doll.’’

• Review by Thom Geier
  from Entertainment Weekly
  April 21, 2013

  ‘‘The actor even makes a convincing Lady Macbeth, who in his interpretation emerges as a frankly earthy figure willing to use sex as a bargaining tool.’’

• Review by Mark Fisher
  from Variety
  April 21, 2013

  ‘‘In a sad, emotionally draining and bravura perf, [Cumming] makes it seem as if every psychosis and hallucination in the play is an expression of one man’s fragile state of mind.’’

• Review by Mark Kennedy
  from Associated Press
  April 21, 2013

  ‘‘The original moments of ingenuity…make this 'Macbeth' impossible to stop watching: Cumming’s Duncan as a pompous English fool seated in a wheelchair instead of a throne, Macbeth consulting with the assassin of Banquo in a mirror and Malcolm portrayed as a baby doll.’’

• Review by Charles Isherwood
  from The New York Times
  April 21, 2013

  ‘‘The murderous general of the title is portrayed by the Scotland-born Alan Cumming, whose rich, rolling accent brings a whiff of the green highlands with it.’’