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

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

But the production of “Othello” co-headlined by Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lacks a Big Idea to make it seem like ...

Where Washington’s interpretation may lack a tragic dimension, it makes perfectly clear why an old codger like Othello would think his young wife lusts for a hot young lieutenant like Cassio.

When you come out of Othello mostly thinking how impressive the actors playing Cassio and Emilia were, something’s askew in the balance. Those secondary roles acquire vitality and depth of ...

Andrew Burnap, center, as Cassio and the cast of “Othello” on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. What might surprise even this actor’s fervent fans is the joy he takes in the lines ...

The battle of wits and wills is on at the Barrymore Theatre where Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are going toe to toe ...

Othello, starring Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal is ...

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?