After No Time To Die, Daniel Craig returns to Broadway with Sam Gold's Macbeth

Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and its also got plenty of blood being spilled. (Read on Firstpost: No Time To Die movie review: Daniel Craig’s sloppy, sentimental farewell) Craig will return to Broadway in 2022 as Macbeth in a revival of Williams Shakespeare’s tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth. Macbeth will play the Lyceum Theatre starting 29 March, 2022, with an opening set for 28 April. Tony Award-winner Sam Gold will direct. Barbara Broccoli, who produces the James Bond films with her brother, is a producer of Macbeth. Craig was last on Broadway in a 2013 revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal opposite his wife, Rachel Weisz, and directed by Mike Nichols. Craig also starred opposite Hugh Jackman in 2009’s A Steady Rain. Gold directed Craig in a 2016 off-Broadway production of Othello alongside David Oyelowo. Negga, whose film credits include Loving and World War Z, started her career in the theater, and in 2020, made her New York City theatrical debut in the titular role of Hamlet. It will mark the second high-profile Macbeth after Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. That film will be released in theaters 25 December and on Apple TV+ on 14 January.