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■ Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and it also has plenty of blood being spilled. Craig will return to Broadway in 2022 as Macbeth in a revival of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth. “Macbeth” will play the Lyceum Theatre starting March 29, with an opening set for April 28. 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 theatrical debut as Ophelia in “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 Dec. 25 and on Apple TV+ on Jan. 14.
■ London finally honored the late Princess Diana on Wednesday with a blue plaque at the place she called home in the two years before she married Prince Charles and her life in the goldfish bowl began. For Diana, 60 Coleherne Court, an apartment near London’s fashionable King’s Road, was the start of a new adventure. Settling in the capital on reaching her 18th birthday, Diana shared the apartment with a number of friends from 1979 to 1981. It was there that she first started to date Charles. One of her roommates then, Virginia Clarke, helped unveil
the English Heritage plaque during Wednesday’s ceremony. “Those were happy days for all of us and the flat was always full of laughter,” she said. “Diana went off to become so much to so many. It’s wonderful that her legacy will be remembered in this way.” According to Andrew Morton’s 1992 bestselling book “Diana, In Her Own Words,” Diana described her years at the property as “the happiest time” of her life. Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, is the highest-profile former member of the monarchy to be bestowed the honor. She was nominated by the London Assembly in 2019 after the body ran a campaign asking Londoners to suggest women worthy of a blue plaque. The renowned London blue plaque program, which began more than 150 years ago, commemorates people who achieved something worthwhile in their lives and who made London their home at some point. There are more than 900 official plaques in the capital.