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Get ready for the highest-profile star casting in several years, if not decades. Oscar and Tony winner Denzel Washington (
Training Day, Fences) and Tony and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (
Sea Wall/A Life, Brokeback Mountain) will co-star in a revival of Shakespeare's Othello, set to open in Spring 2025. To add to the marquee value, the play will be directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon (
A Raisin in the Sun) who will also be staging a new production of
Our Town during the same 2024-25 season. Leon directed Washington in
The Iceman Cometh, Raisin, and
Fences. Further casting is to be announced.
This will be the 22nd production of Othello on Broadway. The most recent was in 1982 with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. The most famous was probably in 1943 with Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen. Recent Off-Broadway productions have starred Raul Julia and Christopher Walken, David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig, John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have played the jealousy-ridden Moor on screen.
