Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that ...

William ShakespeareDirected by: Kenny LeonCast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap, Anthony ...

The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows his misplaced trust in Iago to lead him astray; the villain’s well-chosen lie wrenches apart Othello’s marriage to Desdemona ...

Both actors were in their 40s at the time. Denzel Washington offers a quite different Othello by the simple fact that the actor is 70 years old. His Othello is definitely not middle-aged.

“Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic tragedy, wrought of the marital bedroom, shot through with the corrosive power of sexual jealousy and suffused with betrayal of the most personal and ...

In short, as I felt the production’s blunt force more and more, I grasped its aura and aims less and less. “Othello,” unique among Shakespeare’s tragedies, is lean. (It’s even leaner in ...

Those are the words that flash on stage before the latest star-studded adaptation of Othello, now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. But I’m still not entirely sure why.

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Staged on a stately set of distressed classical grandeur designed by Derek McLane, this stylish but shallow modern-dress Othello is set in “The Near Future ...

The two-time Oscar winner is the principal reason audiences are shelling out upwards of $900 to see Kenny Leon’s frustratingly underpowered revival of Othello on Broadway. Playing the Venetian ...