Anthony Mackie returns to Broadway as Macbeth: the “Captain America” star to lead the transfer of the Donmar Warehouse production in spring 2027

Anthony Mackie, known worldwide as Sam Wilson – Captain America in the Marvel films, will return to Broadway next spring to play Macbeth, as BroadwayWorld announces, citing Baz Bamigboye’s exclusive reporting for Deadline. The production is expected to open on Broadway in the spring of 2027, marking the actor’s return to the New York theatre after 16 years.

It is the New York transfer of the Donmar Warehouse Theatre’s staging of “Macbeth”, which was performed in 2023 with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in the leading roles and later moved to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. The production became known for the unusual sound design created by Gareth Fry: a binaural system that required audience members to wear headphones throughout the performance, while the actors spoke their lines into microphones.

“I started out as a theatre kid”, Mackie told Deadline. “And theatre has been my passion since I was seven years old. Now that I can do it at this level, in this space – there are not many who can say they have played Macbeth on Broadway.” On the show’s technical experience he added: “The microphones and the sound aspect are interesting, because you in the audience can hear everything, every whisper, you can feel every emotion. Instead of us projecting our voices to the last row, the hall itself comes to the stage.”

Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and studied acting at the prestigious Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 2001. He made his film debut in 2002 with “8 Mile” and won critical acclaim for roles in “Brother to Brother” (2004) and “The Hurt Locker” (2008), before global fame reached him with the role of Falcon, and later Captain America, in the Marvel cinematic universe, from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014) to “Captain America: Brave New World” (2025).

On stage, the actor has previously performed on Broadway and Off-Broadway in plays such as “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, “A Soldier’s Play” and Carl Hancock Rux’s “Talk”, for which he won the Obie Award in 2002. He last appeared on Broadway in 2010, in Martin McDonagh’s “A Behanding in Spokane”, alongside Christopher Walken. The exact premiere dates, the theatre that will host the production and the additional cast will be announced at a later time.