BHM 2026 No 18

Jack Carter -actor. Created the role of Crown in the Broadway production of Porgy. Starred in Orson Welles’s stage productions of Macbeth, also known as the Voodoo Macbeth

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Orson Welles' All-Black Version of 'Macbeth' Excited Theatergoers Nationwide The bold staging of Shakespeare's classic helped make Harlem a home for "serious" theater

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BBC - Orson Welles’ Voodoo Macbeth: A forgotten diversity landmark Before Citizen Kane, Orson Welles directed an all-black production of Macbeth in 1936.

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BHM 2023

Jack Carter -actor. He starred in Orson Welles's productions of Macbeth, Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of that came to be known as the Voodoo Macbeth

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