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

“Othello,” unique among Shakespeare’s tragedies, is lean. (It’s even leaner in this production, thanks to some judicious cutting.) It has fewer major characters than most, and fewer sideshows ...

The actor injects notes of ingratiating charm into his character's evil ... can generate heat. Key dialogue is treated almost disposably, nowhere more so than in Othello's "It is the cause ...