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William Charles Macready as Virginius. A U.S. production of this play proved to be a big hit for Anna Cora Mowatt. She described it in her novel "Mimic Life."

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2020-09-16

By contrast, Catherine Macready Dickens, Kate, or Katey, was affectionately referred to as "Lucifer Box," because her temper flamed up quickly and warmly, like a tinderbox full of sulfurous lucifer matches, an inferior and volatile forerunner to the 1830s phosphorous match

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2020-09-13

macready, polnareff, and the stranger!!!

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2020-08-23

Commission of Tsubasa Otori from Beyblade but as MacReady from The Thing? I guess so. Thanks for commissioning me!

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2020-07-01

Found this illustrated article on Alfred Bunn, manager of the and nemesis of William Macready. In 1850, he gave a series of lectures on his experiences in the theatre that "wisely avoided contemporary players."

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2020-05-17

in 1849 the took place between supporters of American actor and English tragedian Here's how a London paper described the scene

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2020-05-10

Finished and posted my video on the touched off by a conflict between friend and U.S. actor, https://t.co/PC6Qh7x8ru

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2020-05-09

My finished J. R MacReady (John Carpenter's The Thing).

'First goddamn week of winter'

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2020-05-08

in no danger of being upstaged by the fellow playing the titular character in Shakespeare's at the in 1846

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2020-02-15

Here’s my portrait of Macready (Kurt Russel) from The Thing! I did it in my commercial design class and even though it’s digital it’s done in a way to look like watercolor. I’m very proud of it.

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2019-12-19

On his way back to England Dickens had stopped in Paris, where he'd planned to meet Macready who would be performing there. Alas, a fall delayed Macready's arrival in Paris, leaving Dickens forlorn. "It is painfully clear to me, that I shall not hug you tonight."

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2019-12-06

Monday 14 October 1844: Dickens is feeling homesick. He writes to Macready, who has just returned to London himself, "My whole heart is with you at *home*. I have not yet felt so far off, as I do now - when I think of you there!" (There's even signs of tears on the letter...)

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2019-10-14

Image No. 6 from Republican actor William Macready rabble-rouses as pro-plebeian Caius Gracchus in post-Peterloo food-riots tragedy based on Plutarch by anti-poverty agitator James Knowles. The script was brutally censored by the Lord Chamberlain

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2019-02-19