Jake Gyllenhaal, currently back on Broadway starring as Iago in Othello opposite Denzel Washington at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, will be honored by Manhattan Theatre Club at the company’s 2025 Spring Gala, set for May 19 at Cipriani 42nd Street.

The event will be hosted by three-time Tony honoree Bernadette Peters, currently starring in MTC’s Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

The honor is the latest in a long association between Gyllenhaal and the theatre company. The stage and screen star led MTC’s 2015 production of Constellations, and served on the company’s Board of Directors from 2015 to 2023.

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Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal are playing iconic villains on Broadway, and when the two actors meet up before a Friday evening performance, they bond over their refusal to view their characters as purely evil. Read the article behind the cut, watch the full interview on Youtube, and view the portraits in our gallery.

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Magazine Scans > 2025 > Variety Magazine (US) | April 23
Photoshoots & Outtakes > Portraits > Variety – ‘Actors On Actors: Broadway’

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Jake Gyllenhaal could do absolutely anything next. Asked over lunch about his reading of a famed line in “Othello” — Iago’s seething “I hate the Moor” — the 44-year-old actor furrows his brow, runs his hands through his buzzed hair and ponders the performance I attended. “I’m trying to think about yesterday’s matinee, because it changes,” he says. “I’ve not made any sort of definitive choice.”

Soft-spoken and gently smiling, Gyllenhaal later summons the wide-eyed mania of his zanier characters — think his drunken “Okja” zoologist or Mr. Music of “John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch” — when the topic shifts to his eclectic body of work. “I’m just kind of random,” the Oscar nominee exclaims. “I guess as focused and intense as I can be, I also have a sense of, like, ‘That sounds fun. Oh, that scares me — I’ll give that a shot.’”

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Jake hosted the Shubert Foundation’s 11th Annual High School Theatre Festival on Monday (March 24th), at the Shubert Theatre in New York City. Photos from the event have been added to the gallery.

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Public Appearances > 2025 > Shubert Foundation’s 11th Annual High School Theatre Festival

First there was method acting (sometimes it wins you an Emmy, sometimes it bristles your costars, sometimes it does both). Then a novel phenomenon called method dressing took red carpets by storm (remember Zendaya’s perfectly executed tennis-themed looks for her Challengers press tour?) Next up: The method dressing room.

Othello star Jake Gyllenhaal’s backstage home-away-from-home in Broadway’s Barrymore theater is an extension of the Shakespearean world he’s been steeped in while developing his version of Iago, the duplicitous ensign to the titular Venetian army general played by Denzel Washington. The revival is a modern take on The Bard’s centuries-old tragedy with relatively spare set design, so Gyllenhaal’s dressing room presented an opportunity to bring the narrative to life with more evocative decor.

“I was told that it’s the dressing room that Marlon Brando was in for A Streetcar Named Desire.

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