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Othello on Broadway - NYC [40030]

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Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr.&nbsp;was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is known for his multi-award-winning film career, which includes Oscar wins for&nbsp;Training Day&nbsp;in 2002 and for Glory&nbsp;in 1990.

Washington attended the Pennington-Grimes Elementary School until 1968, when he switched to Oakland Military Academy in New Windsor, New York, and then to Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1970. He would eventually go on to earn a bachelor of arts&nbsp;in drama and journalism from Fordham University in 1977, where he enrolled&nbsp;at the Lincoln Center campus to study acting and was cast in the titular roles of Eugene O'Neill's&nbsp;The Emperor Jones&nbsp;and Shakespeare's&nbsp;Othello. He furthered his studies at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco&nbsp;before returning to New York City to begin his professional acting career.

On the New York stage, Washington's first credit was <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/public-theater">The Public Theater's</a> 1979 Shakespeare in the Park&nbsp;production of&nbsp;Coriolanus. He then appeared as Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the 1981 Off-Broadway production of&nbsp;A Soldier's Play. He made his Broadway debut as&nbsp;Sylvester Williams in the Broadway premiere of&nbsp;Checkmates, which ran from August to December 1988, before returning to Shakespeare in the Park&nbsp;in 1990 to play&nbsp;Richard Duke of Gloucester in&nbsp;The Tragedy of Richard III.

Washington next returned to the New York stage almost 15 years later to take on the lead role of&nbsp;Marcus Brutus in the 2005 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's&nbsp;Julius Caesar. He would follow this with an acclaimed stage performance as&nbsp;Troy Maxson in the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson's&nbsp;Fences, winning a Tony Award in the category of Best Actor in a Play&nbsp;at the 2010 ceremony. Washington returned to Broadway in 2014 to take on the role of&nbsp;Walter Lee Younger in the 2014 revival of&nbsp;A Raisin in the Sun, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for his efforts.

On screen, Washington's first big breakthrough came in 1982 when he was cast as&nbsp;Dr. Philip Chandler in the NBC TV series&nbsp;St. Elsewhere,&nbsp;appearing in a total of 137 episodes. His film career took off in 1987 with Cry Freedom.&nbsp;His portrayal of the anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko earned him his first Oscar nomination in 1988&nbsp;as well as a Golden Globe nomination. In 1990, he won his first Oscar and Golden Globe for his performance as Trip in Glory.

He would become a regular star in Hollywood, earning further Academy Award nominations for his appearances in Malcolm X&nbsp;(1993), The Hurricane&nbsp;(2000), Flight&nbsp;(2013), and&nbsp;the film adaptation of Fences&nbsp;in 2017 (which he also directed)&nbsp;and winning his second Oscar for his portrayal of&nbsp;corrupt cop Alonzo Harris in Training Day&nbsp;in 2002. Washington also earned Golden Globe nominations for American Gangster&nbsp;in 2008 and for Roman J. Israel, Esq.&nbsp;in January&nbsp;2018. Other notable film credits include The Equalizer,&nbsp;The Book of Eli,&nbsp;The Great Debaters,&nbsp;Deja Vu,&nbsp;Remember the Titans,&nbsp;The Preacher's Wife,&nbsp;The Pelican Brief,&nbsp;and Philadelphia.

Washington returned&nbsp;to the Broadway stage to take on the role of&nbsp;Hickey in Eugene O'Neill's&nbsp;The Iceman Cometh&nbsp;from March 23 though to July 1, 2018, earning his second Tony Award nomination.

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The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre opened on January 11, 1927. The venue was originally named the Royale by real-estate magnates, the Chanin Brothers, as part of a three-theatre complex.

In 1930, the Chanins transferred ownership of all three houses to the Shubert Organization. During the Great Depression, control of the Jacobs passed to John Golden, who renamed the theatre after himself and ran it from 1934 to 1936. (This venue is not to be confused with the current John Golden Theatre, which is right next door.)

The Shuberts regained control in 1936 and restored the theatre's name to the Royale. It was renamed the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on May 9, 2005 after the longtime Shubert Organization president.

## How to get to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is accessible by subway; it is nearest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal on the A, C, or E line. The theatre is also located near various bus stops: 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines; 7th Ave/W. 44th St. on the M104 line; and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS lines.

## Restaurants near the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is located one block southeast of Restaurant Row, the stretch of 46th St. between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Popular restaurants on this block include Hold Fast (American), Joe Allen (American), and Becco (Italian), in addition to various other types of cuisines.

[Learn more about popular pre- and post-show restaurants in the Theatre District.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/where-to-eat-before-and-after-a-broadway-show)

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Jacob "Jake" Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He is an Oscar-nominated actor known for his critically acclaimed performances in films such as Brokeback Mountain,&nbsp;Nightcrawler,&nbsp;and Donnie Darko,&nbsp;among others.

Gyllenhaal's father is film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and his mother is&nbsp;film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner, so&nbsp;he began acting at a very young age. He made his debut as Danny Robbins (Billy Crystal's son) in the 1991 film City Slickers.&nbsp;Throughout the 1990s, he continued to appear in films, including A Dangerous Woman&nbsp;(alongside his famous sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal) in 1993 and Homegrown&nbsp;in 1998.

Gyllenhaal attended&nbsp;Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles and went on to study Eastern religions and philosophy at Columbia University in New York City, dropping out after two years to further pursue his career in acting. His big break came in 2001 after landing the titular role in Donnie&nbsp;Darko,&nbsp;which would go on to become a cult favorite and earn great critical acclaim.

He made his stage debut in London's West End in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's&nbsp;This Is Our Youth, which played a limited eight-week engagement at the Garrick Theatre in 2002.

After starring in such films as The Good Girl&nbsp;and Moonlight Mile&nbsp;in 2002, he would land the leading role of&nbsp;Sam Hall in the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. 2005 turned out to be a monumental year for the young actor with Proof&nbsp;and Jarhead,&nbsp;but the year reached&nbsp;a peak for Gyllenhaal with his&nbsp;portrayal of&nbsp;Jack Twist in the highly lauded Brokeback Mountain.&nbsp;His performance earned him his first Academy Award nomination in 2006 along with a win at the BAFTAs in London.

Over the next few years, Gyllenhaal starred in such films as Zodiac&nbsp;(2007), Rendition&nbsp;(2007), Brothers&nbsp;(2009), as Dastan in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time&nbsp;(2010), as&nbsp;Jamie Randall in Love &amp; Other Drugs&nbsp;(2010, earning his first Golden Globe nomination in 2011), and End of Watch&nbsp;(2012).

He made his Off-Broadway debut for Roundabout Theatre Company in Nick Payne's&nbsp;If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which played the Laura Pels Theatre from August through December 2012, resulting in his first Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations. He would make his Broadway debut for Manhattan Theatre Club in another piece by Payne, as he starred alongside Ruth Wilson in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/constellations">Constellations</a>&nbsp;at the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/samuel-j-friedman-theatre">Samuel J. Friedman Theatre</a> from December 2014 to March 2015. He made his musical theatre&nbsp;debut as Seymour in the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/new-york-city-center">New York City Center</a> concert staging of&nbsp;Little Shop of Horrors&nbsp;in the summer of 2015. Gyllenhaal returned to New York City Center in October 2016 to star in a semi-staged production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's&nbsp;Sunday in the Park with George, opposite Annaleigh Ashford. Thanks to great critical acclaim and popular demand, the production was granted a Broadway transfer, reopening the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hudson-theatre">Hudson Theatre</a> for a limited run from February to April 2017.

Gyllenhaal's other recent and notable screen credits include Prisoners&nbsp;(2013);&nbsp;a Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated performance as&nbsp;Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler&nbsp;(2014);&nbsp;Southpaw,&nbsp;Everest,&nbsp;and Demolition&nbsp;(2015);&nbsp;a BAFTA-nominated performance in Nocturnal Animals&nbsp;(2016);&nbsp;and Velvet Buzzsaw&nbsp;(2019). In 2019, he also joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as comic book supervillain Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

He returned to the New York stage for a third collaboration with Payne to star as Abe in&nbsp;Sea Wall / A Life&nbsp;(with <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/actor-profile/tom-sturridge">Tom Sturridge</a> starring as&nbsp;Sea Wall's Alex) at <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/public-theater">The Public Theater</a>, which ran from January 1 to March 31, 2019, and transfered&nbsp;to Broadway's Hudson Theatre for a limited run from&nbsp;July 26 through September 29, 2019.

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Joseph Papp founded The Public Theater in 1954 as the Shakespeare Workshop. The organization moved into its current home on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan in 1967.

The Public Theater building was under risk of demolition until the Public persuaded the city council to sell them the building for use as a theatre. As a result, the building was granted New York City landmark status in 1965, and architect Giorgio Cavaglieri converted it into a theatre in 1967.

The company’s inaugural production in its new home was the world premiere of *Hair*, which also marked its first non-Shakespeare offering. The building is comprised of five performance spaces: the Anspacher Theater (which has a 275-seat capacity), LuEsther Hall (160 seats), Martinson Theater (199 seats), Newman Theater (299 seats), and Shiva Theater (99 seats).

The Public complex also include office spaces; the restaurant and bar The Library; and Joe’s Pub, a cabaret-style venue used for smaller musical revues and soloists. The company also operates the [Delacorte Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/delacorte-theater) in Central Park, which has been home to free Shakespeare in the Park productions during the summer since 1954.

## How to get to The Public Theater off Broadway

The Public Theater is closest to the Astor Place subway stop on the 6 line and the 8 St - NYU stop on the R and W lines. The closest bus stop is Lafayette St./Astor Pl. on the M1 line.

## Restaurants near The Public Theater

Popular restaurants near The Public Theater include Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, Vic's (Italian), and Atla (Mexican). The Public also has an in-house bar and restaurant, The Library (American).

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