Theater: The Incomparable Corey Stoll in ‘Macbeth’

Oct. 10-Dec. 15, classicstage.org.

For three brilliant summers running, Corey Stoll starred in Shakespearean dramas in Central Park. He played Ulysses in “Troilus and Cressida”; Brutus in “Julius Caesar”; and, just last year, the treacherous Iago in “Othello.” Each time, Mr. Stoll was so uncommonly unaffected, so at home inside the language, that it made you exhale just to watch him. You knew you were in excellent hands.

All of which is a strong enticement to the more intimate, indoor experience that will be Classic Stage Company’s “Macbeth,” with Mr. Stoll (“House of Cards”) in the title role of the Scottish thane who would be king. Mr. Stoll’s wife, Nadia Bowers — terrific recently in Aaron Posner’s Chekhov adaptation “Life Sucks” Off Broadway — will play the tactically ruthless Lady Macbeth; while Mary Beth Peil (“The Good Wife”) has been cast, intriguingly, as Duncan. Directed by John Doyle, the production starts previews on Thursday, Oct. 10, in Greenwich Village. LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES