Daniel Craig will return to the New York stage in 2016 for an Off-Broadway production of Othello at New York Theatre Workshop, the company announced. David Oyelowlo (Selma) will join Craig in the title role. Sam Gold, Tony winner for Fun Home, is set to direct. Dates and a venue for the production have not yet been announced.
Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o will make her Broadway debut this spring in Eclipsed, a new play currently in performances Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre, producers announced. The play by Danai Gurira, who’s also an actor and appears on AMC’s The Walking Dead, is about a group of captive wives in the Liberian Civil War. Previews on will begin at the Golden Theatre on February 23 for an opening night of March 6. Liesl Tommy directs.
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