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English: Opening of the Federal Theater Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem
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Source Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Author Federal Theatre Project
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Object location40° 48′ 47″ N, 73° 56′ 41″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

"At opening night, ten thousand people clogged the streets outside the theater … The police were needed to hold back the crowds, and the whole scene was recorded by newsreel cameramen and radio announcers. It was one of Harlem's proudest evenings." — Frank Brady, Citizen Welles (1989), page 88

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14 April 1936

40°48'47.002"N, 73°56'40.999"W

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