Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...
Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.
the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with tickets going for around a thousand dollars; y’know, that one—didn’t get the memo.
But the insidious scheming by Iago to discredit newly promoted Cassio by poisoning Othello’s thoughts with jealousy too seldom makes sparks fly. A deserving Tony winner for his shattering work ...
Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two backs? Or maybe Emilia and Cassio got their beast on. Is it a racial thing? The bottled up aggression of a warrior?