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His Hour Upon the Stage

The first time I saw Alan Cumming was in a Sex and the City episode, in which he played a Dolce & Gabbana stylist called O. It was a small part, but he was terrific. And then, all of a sudden, I was seeing him everywhere: introducing public television programs, on The Good Wife (his American accent is so good that unless you knew he was Scottish, you would swear he'd never been east of Brooklyn), on The Colbert Report ...
   His latest theatrical coup is in a version of Macbeth, currently on Broadway, in which he plays all the parts (story, audio interview): http://www.pri.org/stories/arts-entertainment/well-known-scottish-actor-alam-cumming-handles-all-the-roles-in-new-broadway-version-of-macbeth-13905.html

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