Broadway star Rose McClendon asks 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with all-Black cast in 1936. - Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, prominent Harlem Renaissance Broadway actress Rose McClendon convinces untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. The road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. This revolutionary 1936 production would change the world forever. Based on True Events.