Liev Schreiber to Star in Central Park Macbeth

By: Feb. 28, 2006
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The New York Times reports that Liev Schreiber is headed to Central Park in the Public Theater's new production of Macbeth. Kicking off the Public Theater's new summer season, the show will be directed by Moises Kaufman, with performances to begin on June 13. More casting news is expected shortly.

Schreiber, who most recently won a Tony award on Broadway portraying Richard Roma in the Glengarry Glen Ross, has previously been seen on Broadway in In the Summer House and Betrayal. An acclaimed interpreted of Shakespeare, he has appeared off-Broadway in Henry V, Othello, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Schreiber's screen credits include the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Scream 3, Hamlet, Sphere, A Walk on the Moon and Big Night. He recently wrapped his first big screen directorial project, an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel Everything is Illuminated.

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