Opening night of ‘Othello’ took place last night at the Barrymore Theatre in NYC. Photos of Jake during the curtain call, backstage with his family, greeting former president Joe Biden with the cast after the show, and at the after party have been added to our gallery. ‘Othello’ runs from now through June 8th. Get tickets here!

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We’re talking about faith. Last December, just before Christmas, actor Denzel Washington was baptized and licensed as a minister, and so it hasn’t taken long, chatting about his return to Broadway playing the title role in Othello, for conversation to turn to matters of belief. Not religious, per se; Shakespeare’s great tragedy turns on themes of love and jealousy and betrayal. Perhaps, I muse, Othello’s choice to trust the evidence of his eyes—a planted handkerchief—over his innocent wife Desdemona’s protests that she has never strayed, is a kind of loss of faith, a misguided embrace of rationality over spirit. “Well, sure, he wants proof,” pipes up Jake Gyllenhaal, who co-stars in the production as Iago, planter of the aforementioned handkerchief, “and, Iago keeps leading him back to the handkerchief—look, look!—but the only reason he can manipulate Othello that way is that they have a bond. They’ve fought together, trusted each other with their lives. He knows this is a man with a great sense of faith and love.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal joined Denzel Washington and other cast / crew today at a ‘Othello’ photocall / press day in NY. Several interviews with Jake and Denzel from press day have also been added to our video archive.

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The previously announced Broadway revival of ‘Othello’ starring Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Molly Osborne has announced its opening date and venue. The production will begin previews on Monday, February 24th, 2025, at the Barrymore Theatre ahead of a Sunday, March 23rd, opening night.

Presale tickets will be available exclusively to members of the ‘Othello’ Priority List starting Thursday, September 12th at 10 AM ET through Friday, September 13th at 9:59 AM ET. To sign up, click here.

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a Broadway production of “Othello” next year, setting up what is sure to be one of the hottest tickets of the 2024-2025 theater season.

Kenny Leon, who won a Tony Award in 2014 for directing a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” that starred Washington, will direct the production — the 22nd Broadway staging of “Othello” since 1751, according to the Internet Broadway Database. Leon also directed Washington’s Tony-winning performance in a 2010 production of “Fences.”

Washington, an enormously successful film actor with two Academy Awards, for “Glory” and “Training Day,” has starred in five previous Broadway plays, most recently a 2018 revival of “The Iceman Cometh.”

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