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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photographs by Brian Bowen Smith and Momodu MansarayDenzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star together on Broadway in a new production of Shakespeare’s Othello, it was announced Wednesday.
The production, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, will open in spring 2025 at a yet-to-be-announced Shubert Theatre. Washington will portray the title character, while Gyllenhaal will play the villainous Iago, who malignly sets out to convince Othello that his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful to him. Her portrayer is yet to be cast.
The show’s producer Brian Anthony Moreland told The Daily Beast: “I am immensely excited, I am thrilled that these two people are coming together to do this play. It wasn’t difficult to get them together to do it, they’re both artists and they both wanted to it. It made me very happy. They are an absolute dream. I’m really over the moon.” Laughing, he added, “It’s been very difficult to keep under wraps. We’ve been talking about it for a while, it’s been the worst-kept secret ever!”
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