Limerick actress Ruth Negga joins Daniel Craig in her Broadway debut

Ruth Negga Broadway – Limerick actress Ruth Negga will be joined by Daniel Craig for her Broadway debut in Macbeth.

Limerick actress Ruth Negga joins Daniel Craig in her Broadway debut

By I Love Limerick Correspondent Ann Mc Donald

Macbeth will be a 15-week limited run, tickets are available from October 8 and previews begin on Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga will make her Broadway debut in March next year.

The Limerick actress will be joining 007 actor Daniel Craig on stage, who has previously appeared in ‘A Steady Rain’ alongside Hugh Jackman and ‘Betrayal’ with his wife Rachel Weisz.

The pair will be starring in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, also known as ‘The Scottish Play.’

According to press materials, the tale of malice, murder and matrimony will, “capture the passion and ferocity of Shakespeare’s most haunting text like never before.”

The show will be directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, whose credits include ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2,’ and ‘Fun House.’

While this may be Ruth’s first Broadway production, she is no stranger to Shakespeare, appearing in a version of Hamlet at Brooklyn’s St Ann’s Warehouse, which was imported from Dublin’s Gate Theatre with an all-Irish cast early last year.

Ruth was born in Ethiopia to an Irish mother and an Ethiopian father. They met while her mother was working as a nurse there.

The actress lived there until she was 4 years old before moving to Limerick, where she grew up.

Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga will play Macbeth & Lady Macbeth in a new Broadway production of ‘MACBETH’, directed by Tony winner Sam Gold,

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She studied at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College and graduated with a BA in Acting Studies.

She has appeared in films such as ‘Capital Letters,’ ‘Isolation,’ ‘Loving,’ ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ and ‘Warcraft.’

She has also worked on TV shows such as the BBC mini-series ‘Criminal Justice,’ RTÉ’s ‘Love/Hate,’ E4’s ‘Misfits,’ ABC’s ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD.,’ and ‘Preacher.’

Macbeth, which will be shown at the Lyceum Theatre in Manhattan, will be a limited 15-week engagement, and tickets will be available to the general public from October 8.

Previews begin on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 and will open on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

For more information on the production go HERE 

For more stories about Ruth Negga go HERE