Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington will play Brutus in this new production, the first Broadway staging of Julius Caesar in over 50 years. It will mark his first New York stage ...

Washington’s portrayal of Othello adds him to a collection of Black actors who have performed the theatrical role, which was traditionally portrayed by whites only for generations.

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December ... He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and ...