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‘Othello’ With Denzel Washington & Jake Gyllenhaal: Once Again Iago Gets The Last Laugh – Broadway Review
Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for the next nearly three hours.
Opening night: March 23, 2025 Venue: Broadway ’s Barrymore Theatre Written by: William Shakespeare Directed by: Kenny Leon Cast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap, Anthony Michael Lopez, Daniel Pearce, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Neal Bledsoe, Julee Cerda, Ezra Knight, Gene Gillette, Rob Heaps, and William Connell, Ty Fanning, Ben Graney, Daniel Reece, Christina Sajous, Greg Wood, with swing Abiola Obatolu. Justin Ellington’s sound design contributes mightily to the feeling of looming tragedy, especially in the snippets of anxiety-provoking music (of various genres, including, at beginning and end, an almost mocking, queasy-making use of something so overtly Hollywood-romantic that Dean Martin might have lent his wee hours lounge crooning to it. Burnap give Cassio the wounded boyishness that makes him do mad things, and Kimber Elayne Sprawl brings a fierce intelligence to Iago’s misused wife Emilia.
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