Anthony Mackie says he will play the title role in Macbeth on Broadway next spring, in a New York transfer of Max Webster’s London staging. The producers have not yet confirmed the engagement or named a theater.
Mackie disclosed the plan in an interview with Deadline, published on October 5. As he described it, rehearsals begin in February 2027, previews follow in late March or early April, and the run continues until July at a Broadway house still to be announced. No announcement has come from the production itself, so those dates are the actor’s outline rather than a confirmed schedule.
The staging he is joining opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London in late 2023, with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo as the Macbeths, and later moved to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End for an 11-week season that sold out. Jumbo’s casting opposite Tennant was announced in May 2023.
What set that production apart was its sound. Gareth Fry designed a binaural system that puts the audience in headphones while the actors speak into microphones, so the quietest line carries to every seat. Mackie said that “instead of having to project to the back of the house, the house comes to the stage.”
Lady Macbeth has not been cast. Webster and the production’s casting directors are still looking for her and for the rest of the company, and Mackie expects “an all-American cast.”
The role would end a 16-year absence from Broadway for the Juilliard-trained actor, whose last appearance there was in Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane, opposite Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Zoe Kazan. He is preparing the text with Richard Feldman, who taught him at Juilliard. “Not too many people can say they did Macbeth on Broadway,” he said.
Tickets are not on sale, and no booking information has been released.
