A tale of malice, matrimony and murder, MACBETH tells the story of one couple’s obsession with power—and their guilt after doing the unthinkable. For 15 weeks only, this thrilling new production will capture the passion and ferocity of Shakespeare’s most haunting text like never before.
Almost tenderly, then, the production drifting around Craig touches him only lightly. It's an unusually bare staging for Broadway, stuffed with ideas but stripped clean of folderol. For the majority of the company, director Sam Gold has settled on a kind of still-in-rehearsal vibe, with big events whirling up out of an empty theater lit dimly by ghost light. Who is a witch and who is a laird in any single moment seems fluid - appropriately for a cast hamstrung repeatedly by COVID setbacks, anyone might play anyone. In contrast, Craig and Ruth Negga, as Lady Macbeth, are incontrovertibly stars, gliding across the space like slow, gleaming peacocks.
A very busy Broadway season comes to a close with its final production, and Sam Gold's staging of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga is nothing if not a dynamic attempt to cap an unusual and often extraordinary theater season. Uneven - if not so much as Gold's 2019 King Lear with Glenda Jackson - and peppered with choices both curious (what, no 'double double toil and trouble?') and captivating (a brief prologue that's as funny as it is timely), this iteration of The Scottish Play, which opened last night at the Longacre Theatre, nearly holds up to the unavoidable hype of its starry cast.
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Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2018 | West End |
Royal Shakespeare Company London Production West End |
| 2022 | Broadway |
Limited Engagement Broadway |
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| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Ruth Negga |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Jane Cox |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Ruth Negga |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Mikaal Sulaiman |
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