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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a Broadway manufacturing of “Othello” subsequent 12 months, establishing what is bound to be one of many hottest tickets of the 2024-2025 theater season.
Kenny Leon, who gained a Tony Award in 2014 for steering a revival of “A Raisin within the Sun” that starred Washington, will direct the manufacturing — the twenty second Broadway staging of “Othello” since 1751, in line with the Internet Broadway Database. Leon additionally directed Washington’s Tony-winning efficiency in a 2010 manufacturing of “Fences.”
Washington, an enormously profitable movie actor with two Academy Awards, for “Glory” and “Training Day,” has starred in 5 earlier Broadway performs, most just lately a 2018 revival of “The Iceman Cometh.”
Gyllenhaal, additionally greatest identified for his movie profession (“Brokeback Mountain,” the upcoming “Road House” remake), has starred in three earlier Broadway exhibits, most just lately a 2019 monologue known as “A Life,” which was paired with “Sea Wall” for a night of one-acts.
In “Othello,” one in all Shakespeare’s nice tragedies, Washington, 69, will play the title character, a common pushed mad by jealousy. Gyllenhaal, 43, will play Iago, the story’s villain, who persuades Othello to query his spouse’s constancy. The position of Othello’s spouse, Desdemona, has not but been solid.
The revival shall be produced by Brian Anthony Moreland (“The Wiz”); the present is scheduled to open within the spring of 2025 at an unspecified Shubert Theater.
The final Broadway manufacturing of “Othello” was in 1982, and starred James Earl Jones as Othello and Christopher Plummer as Iago.
