James Bond Star & Broadway Alum Daniel Craig Eyeing Return to New York Stage in Othello

Daniel Craig has kept his word and is in negotiation to return to the Big Apple stage! The current 007 and Great White Way alum is looking to play Iago in Othello at New York Theatre Workshop in 2016, potentially in the spring. According to the New York Post, the project is in its very early stages, with no director yet attached to the off-Broadway project.

Shakespeare’s Othello tackles the universal and timeless themes of jealousy, betrayal, racism and the lure of power. The classic was most notably fairly recently seen off-Broadway in 2009 with John Ortiz in the title role and the late screen and stage legend Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago, directed by Peter Sellars.

Craig recently went on record as saying that he didn't want to return to Broadway, but "I’d like to do some theater in New York," within the next two years. He has appeared on the Great White Way twice, making his Main Stem debut in 2009's A Steady Rain, before returning in 2013 to star opposite his wife, Rachel Weisz, in a sold-out run of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.

Craig is best known for his role as James Bond in Skyfall, Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale and the upcoming Spectre. His other film credits include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Defiance, The Golden Compass, Munich, Layer Cake and Road to Perdition.