Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end ...

Photographed by Julieta Cervantes, the images capture Washington and Gyllenhaal in character as Moorish general Othello and his ambitious lieutenant Iago, respectively. The two don military camouflage ...

Instead, "Othello's" setting now seems effectively random, less a choice than the refusal to make a choice. (That's not a problem faced by Gyllenhaal, at least, whose alternation between ingratiating ...

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

Denzel Washington may be bringing his version of “ Othello ” to the screen.

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The production of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy officially opens on March 23 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. Washington, here, is the title character, a military general ...

(That’s not a problem faced by Gyllenhaal, at least, whose alternation between ingratiating suavity and darting, weaselly insecurity turn his Iago into an utterly modern figure — his words may ...