Denzel washington and jake gyllenhaal heading to broadway in shakespeare’s ‘othello’
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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a 2025 Broadway revival of William Shakespeare’s _Othello_, producer Brian Anthony Moreland announced today. The production, to be directed
by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, will open in Spring 2025 at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. Washington will portray the title character, while Gyllenhaal will play ‘Iago’. Few other
details were provided in Moreland’s brief announcement today. Neither Washington nor Gyllenhaal are strangers to Broadway. Washington most recently starred in the 2018 revival of _The Iceman
Cometh_ (earning a Tony nomination), and starred as Walter Lee Younger in the 2014 revival of _A Raisin in the Sun._ In 2010, he appeared in (and won a Tony for) _Fences_, and in 2005 he
played Marcus Brutus in _Julius Caesar. _His Broadway debut came in 1988 with _Checkmates._ Gyllenhaal has performed on Broadway in _Sea Wall/A Life_ in 2019, _Sunday in the Park With George
_in 2017, and _Constellations_ in 2015. He was a producer on _Sea Wall/A Life,_ as well as _Slave Play_ in 2019 and 2021. He received Tony nominations for producing the two productions, and
an acting nomination for_ Sea Wall/A Life._ WATCH ON DEADLINE _Othello_ will mark a Leon-Washington reunion: They previously teamed on the 2010 _Fences_ and the 2014 _Raisin in the Sun_
(Leon won the Best Direction/Play Tony for the production).