Get ready for another big name on the bright lights of Broadway. Denzel Washington will return the New York stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson’s award-winning production Fences. The two-time Oscar winner has been cast as patriarch Troy Maxson.

According to show producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin, Fences will open in April at a theater to be announced. The play will be directed by Kenny Leon, who directed Wilson’s “Radio Golf” and “Gem of the Ocean” on Broadway.

The original 1987 production starred James Earl Jones, Mary Alice, and Courtney B. Vance. It won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Denzel last appeared on New York’s Great White Way in the 2005 revival of “Julius Caesar,” in which he played Brutus.

Denzel Washington has given up hope that he will ever play the nation’s first Black president on the big screen – because he fears he is “too old” for the role.

The 54-year-old Oscar winner would like to play Barack Obama, 47, in a film but fears it will be many years before the president’s life is made into a movie.

He says, “When Obama’s story is ready to be told I’ll be too old to do it. And if it were made now, he has too much to do to have me asking for tips on how to play him.”

Denzel Washington on Letterman

Denzel Washington on the Today Show.

Oprah Winfrey and Denzel Washington are featured on this week’s cover of Parade Magazine.

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Snooping celebrity tattles claim that Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington was spied stepping out on his wife of more than two decades during an afterparty for last month’s Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya fight in Las Vegas. Read the rest of this entry »