After shining brightly in Constellations on Broadway last season, Jake Gyllenhaal is aiming to return to the Main Stem in Lanford Wilson’s Burn This. According to the New York Post, the production will be helmed by Tony winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening). No word yet on dates or theater.

Burn This centers on four New Yorkers whose lives are uprooted by a young dancer’s accidental death. The play premiered off-Broadway in 1987, later transferring to the Great White Way. The Signature Theatre Company revived the show off-Broadway 2002.

Gyllenhaal made his New York stage debut in If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet and starred in the revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth in London’s West End in 2002; he recently appreared in Little Shop of Horrors for Encores!. The actor earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in Brokeback Mountain and his additional film credits include Prisoners, Enemy, Source Code, Donnie Darko, Nightcrawler and Everest.

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Jake Gyllenhaal will be promoting ‘Demolition’ on various talk shows next week. Be sure to tune in!

Upcoming TV Appearances

• March 21st, 2016 – The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• March 22nd, 2016 – The Today Show
• March 23rd, 2016 – Live with Kelly & Michael

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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in Life, Skydance’s sci-fi project that is being directed by Daniel Espinosa. Ryan Reynolds was to have starred in the project opposite Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation breakout Rebecca Ferguson but the Deadpool star has a conflict with his newest movie, the action thriller Hitman’s Bodyguard. Instead, Reynolds will take a smaller role.

The story follows the crew of the International Space Station, who, after retrieving a sample from Mars, discover that it displays signs of life, and proves to be more intelligent than expected.

Gyllenhaal has the Tom Ford drama Nocturnal Animals in which he stars opposite Amy Adams opening this fall. He will also shoot Lionsgate’s Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which he is also producing.

He next stars in Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, which opens April 8.

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South by Southwest has revealed its star-studded 2016 film festival lineup.

The schedule features no less than 10 world premieres, including “In a Valley of Violence” by Ti West, starring Ethan Hawke and Taissa Farmiga, “Shovel Buddies” starring Bella Thorne and “The Trust”, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood. The new Jean-Marc Vallée drama “Demolition”, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, will also get its US premiere at the festival in Austin, Texas.

The film section of the multifaceted festival sees movies compete in 10 different categories, including narrative feature competition, documentary feature competition, headliners and visions.

SXSW will run from March 11-20. For more information, visit sxsw.com

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A-list stars like Helen Mirren, Neil Patrick Harris and Jake Gyllenhaal will help honor the Roundabout Theatre Company in a short film to air on NBC in New York on Saturday, February 6th. The non-profit powerhouse theatre company is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the 22-minute documentary ‘A Roundabout Road to Broadway’. After Saturday, audiences can watch the film online at the NBC 4 New York website.

Harris will act as host and there will be interviews with Roundabout vets including Alec Baldwin, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Adam Driver, Stephen Karam, Audra McDonald, Jane Krakowski, Frank Langella, Liam Neeson and Christopher Plummer.

The film will take viewers from Roundabout’s humble beginning to its fiscal crisis in the 1980s to eventual turnaround and the crucial role it plays in theatre today.

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