This fall, Daniel Craig returns to the big screen as one of film’s great spies. Next fall, he will return to the small stage as one of theater’s great villains. Mr. Craig, whose fourth outing as James Bond, “Spectre,” opens in the United States next month, will be paired with another British movie star, David Oyelowo (“Selma”), in an Off Broadway production of “Othello” that is sure to be one of the hottest tickets of the next theatrical season. Mr. Oyelowo will play the title role, and Mr. Craig his infamous tormentor, Iago.
The play will be staged by New York Theater Workshop, a prestigious but small nonprofit that plans to present the work in a 199-seat theater for a limited run in the fall of 2016 (the theater has not yet announced the production’s dates or duration).
The starry cast was assembled and offered to New York Theater Workshop by one of New York’s most in-demand directors, Sam Gold, who this year won the Tony Award as best director for his work on the musical “Fun Home,” and who is also known for his fruitful and frequent collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. Mr. Gold’s career has been built largely on the direction of new work; “Othello” will be the first time he has professionally directed a play by Shakespeare.
Mr. Craig, although best known for his film work, is also a stage actor; he has appeared twice on Broadway, in a 2009 production of “A Steady Rain” and a 2013 revival of “Betrayal,” and earlier this year he told Dujour Magazine that he wanted to do more New York theater but that “I don’t want to do Broadway anymore” because the audiences are too old.
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