Ethan Hawke is set to return to Broadway in a production of Macbeth, opening in October at Lincoln Center.
The play will be directed by Jack O’Brien, director of Tom Stopper's The Coast of Utopia trilogy, which won a Tony award and best actor nomination for Hawke according to LAtimes.
“Macbeth, It’s a part I’ve always wanted to play,” Hawke said on the PBS show Shakespeare Uncovered. “When you think of violent murders, brutal crimes, nightmarish horrors, you might think of the big city, you might think of Manhattan. Or, if you’re like me, you might think a little bit past that to about a 400-year-old play named ‘Macbeth,’” he said. “Even the name of it conjures witches and the dregs of the universe. This tale of mass murder is among the darkest, strangest of all of Shakespeare’s plays.”
Hawke, 42, most recently starred in Before Midnight the third installment of the series, opposite Julie Deply. He also stars in the horror film The Purge which opened number 1 in box offices its opening weekend according to Entertainment weekly.