I have had the good fortune to see two great Othellos on stage: James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1982 and David Oyelowo at the ...

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...

If Othello is a tragedy, the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with ...

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

Othello” tells the story of a Black military commander who falls in love with and marries a young white woman, a daughter of a senator.

Roderigo (Anthony Michael Lopez, solid), to murder him, we feel for Cassio in ways that we rarely do for Desdemona or Othello. Every staging of a classic should stand on its own and not be ...

Gyllenhaal’s performance fuels the show, and when his Iago takes a needed break after getting Cassio wounded and Roderigo murdered, this “Othello” never quite regains either its focus or its ...

Those are the words that flash on stage before the latest star-studded adaptation of Othello, now playing at ... (the even more easily manipulated Roderigo) both play their parts as chess pieces ...

Now, a little over a week later, the celebrated playwright’s timeless 1603 tragedy “Othello” has opened ... Anthony Michael Lopez (Roderigo) may look familiar. The working actor has appeared ...

Gyllenhaal’s performance fuels the show, and when his Iago takes a needed break after getting Cassio wounded and Roderigo murdered, this “Othello” never quite regains either its focus or its ...