On June 2, 2025, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington was honored with a caricature portrait at the legendary Sardi’s ...

It is expected to continue drawing significant attention. In the play, Washington’s Othello is more enigmatic than Gyllenhaal’s Iago. Washington portrays a general whose psychology is obscure.

(For those unfamiliar with “Othello,” serious spoilers follow.) It’s the resentment-riddled Iago, the ultimate disgruntled employee, who takes command of his commander, and pretty much ...

Though "Othello" is drawing big crowds and has been this ... the title character and Gyllenhaal as the manipulative, scheming Iago, opened at the Barrymore Theatre on March 23 and has sold out ...

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?

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 ...

“Othello” opens next Sunday on Broadway ... and a real winner in Jake Gyllenhaal’s feisty Iago, this is one slooow-thello. Let’s start with the nebulous setting that adds nothing to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — “Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic ... Sexual insecurity is what makes this great military man so vulnerable to Iago’s machinations. He can’t come off as her weird ...