Othello just hit Broadway, starring Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and there's a possibility of seeing it on film, too, according to Kenny Leon.

Othello Opening night: March 23, 2025Venue: Broadway’s Barrymore TheatreWritten by: William ShakespeareDirected by: Kenny LeonCast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Molly Osborne, Andrew ...

Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in "Othello" on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. Actors can be effective at any age and the lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war. But ...

Terera and McEwen physically embodied this breakdown beautifully, Desdemona trying to suppress shaking and tears as she confides in Iago’s wife Emilia (Tanya Franks, “Family Affairs”) her confusion ...

Othello is a tragedy, after all, so it’s disconcerting to hear chuckling when this victim of Iago’s scheming — filled with grief and remorse yet helpless to stop himself — leans in to ...

If Othello is a tragedy, the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with tickets going for around a thousand dollars; y’know, that one—didn ...

Which brings me back to the stage – to Othello and Iago. I stress again; I can never approve of killing, no matter how motivated, not of killing and destruction in a neighbor’s country, except ...

Denzel Washington as Othello and Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in "Othello" on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. (Julieta Cervantes) ...

It’s hard to find a straight-up hero in Othello, but Iago’s plain-spoken wife, Emilia, comes close. And Kimber Elayne Sprawl brings a dry, no-b.s. wit to Emilia’s skeptical view of gender roles.