VIRTUAL EVENT: Live! Main Street Theater's Speak of Me as I Am at 6:30pm Central
*The event has already taken place on this date: Thu, 07/23/2020
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While many African Americans of yesteryear are well known for contributions to America’s art scene such as Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Hattie McDaniel, fewer people know about the great black Shakespearean actors of early America. Figures such as Ira Aldridge, Henrietta Vinton Davis, and Paul Robeson may not be household names, but they enthralled audiences with their truth, dignity, and passion, as they embodied characters such as Hamlet, Juliet, Lady Macbeth, and Othello. In this one of a kind reading, actors from Main Street Theater’s Shakespeare for All program will share historic recounts, stories, and of course, scenes and speeches from Shakespeare, in an interactive, audience-friendly presentation that reminds us that Shakespeare is indeed, for ALL.
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