Margaret Webster Production: Macbeth, 1942, New York, directed by Margaret Webster

Margaret Webster was born in New York City but began her career in England with established theatrical companies, including from 1929-1930 at the Old Vic. She returned to the US in 1937 to direct Richard II with Maurice Evans in the title role. The partnership lasted until 1942, with Webster directing Evans in Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Henry IV, Part I. After Evans joined the army her greatest triumph was Othello (1943), starring Paul Robeson in the title role and Jose Ferrer as Iago, which ran for 296 performances, the longest run of a Shakespearean production on Broadway. She played Emilia in the production. In 1945 she staged the longest-running Tempest on Broadway (100 performances, with 24 later). In 1946, Webster and Eva Le Gallienne founded the American Repertory Theater with Cheryl Crawford, with Webster's staging of Shakespeare's Henry VIII with Le Gallienne as Katherine, Walter Hampden as Cardinal Wolsey and Victor Jory in the title role. In 1948 she went on tour with her company, the Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company. The tour lasted until 1951. (Data courtesy of Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License.}

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