Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga to star in Macbeth in March 2022

[mattmarkowski99]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:20am

Begins previews on March 22nd and opens April 28th at the Lyceum Theater. Directed by Sam Gold

https://deadline.com/2021/09/daniel-craig-broadway-macbeth-ruth-negga-spring-2022-1234846541/

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:21am

We learned nothing in 2020. God forbid they produce new work. God forbid actors use their power to perform it. Zzzzzz.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:23am

I’d give all the monies to see them.

In something else.

Anything else.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:43am

Sam Gold has been on a real miss streak lately.
Excited to see how he will mess this up!

[Hamilfan2]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:44am

SouthernCakes said: "Sam Gold has been on a real miss streak lately.
Excited to see how he will mess this up! "

Yep if this is anything like his King Lear it’s a hard pass from me.  I’ll wait for reviews, because I do love this cast.  But a strong cast can only do so much.

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:47am

When I read this article my emotions as I scrolled through it changed to:

Daniel Craig: Awesome

Ruth Negga: Wow!  I can't wait for this!

Sam Gold: UGHHHHHHHH

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:49am

Are there seriously NO other plays for the two of them? Hell, how about a revival of THE GOAT?

[gibsons2]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:49am

It's Ruth Negga for me. I got my ticket. 

[Princeton2]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:58am

Unfortunately now isn't the time to be doing new plays etc. Theatre needs bums on seats, so known crowd pleasers and big names are what's needed to encourage people back into theatres.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 11:59am

I get all of the pushback against the property and the director but can we just pause for a moment and ponder the filling of the post-Rudin void that some were so worried about? A Rudin-less Broadway is not a rudderless Broadway, and we are better for his absence on so many levels. 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:03pm

After what Sam Gold did with King Lear, I'm not too sure about this.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:13pm

To be honest, I really like the poster included in the article

[InTheBathroom1]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:13pm

What idiot is letting Sam Gold direct another Shakespeare after Kong Lear.

[FosseTharp]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:17pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Are there seriously NO other plays for the two of them? Hell, how about a revival of THE GOAT? "
 

Jordan, I desperately want a revival of The Goat….. With Idris Elba and Mary Louise Parker. 

 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:18pm

InTheBathroom1 said: "Kong Lear."

 

^The greatest mash-up of all time! 

 

Anyway, count me in for this one! By all means, everyone else sit this out so I can get tickets more easily! :) 

 

 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:21pm

How do we know Ruth Negga? Feel like I know her name but not sure why?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:21pm

Princeton2 said: "Unfortunately now isn't the time to be doing new plays etc. Theatre needs bums on seats, so known crowd pleasers and big names are what's needed to encourage people back into theatres."

This can absolutely be the time for new plays when you have Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headlining it.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:21pm

Princeton2 said: "Unfortunately now isn't the time to be doing new plays etc. Theatre needs bums on seats, so known crowd pleasers and big names are what's needed to encourage people back into theatres."

This can absolutely be the time for new plays when you have Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headlining it.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:23pm

^ Exactly

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:23pm

Princeton2 said: "Unfortunately now isn't the time to be doing new plays etc. Theatre needs bums on seats, so known crowd pleasers and big names are what's needed to encourage people back into theatres."

Daniel Craig is the name here, and people would see him in anything. So it's unfortunate that it had to be THIS play. This will be Broadway's 5th Macbeth since 2000, and it is coming right on the heels of the Joel Coen film version with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.

I'm glad he wants to do theatre. I am a big supporter of movie stars doing theatre and bringing in new audiences. And I understand that new plays can be scary. But like Denzel, Jackman, Viola Davis, Pacino, Streep, etc. audiences would flock to *any* play he decided to do.

(Ruth Negga is a wonderful talent but is less of an "event" than Craig when it comes to ticket sales.)

Updated On: 9/29/21 at 12:23 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:30pm

The poster is awesome. 

But, this show?

Nah. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:38pm

SouthernCakes said: "How do we know Ruth Negga? Feel like I know her name but not sure why?"

There's this new-fangled thing on the interwebs called Google.  Maybe try that?

 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:42pm

I know. Just, you know, creating a conversation … on a message board..

But you seem fun!

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 12:48pm

Just to confirm ticket sales right now is only American Express, right? Just to make sure.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/29/21 at 1:11pm

HogansHero said: "I get all of the pushback against the property and the director but can we just pause for a moment and ponder the filling of the post-Rudin void that some were so worried about? A Rudin-less Broadway is not a rudderless Broadway, and we are better for his absence on so many levels."

So yet another version of Macbeth somehow illustrates that Broadway isn't rudderless? Sure, Jan.