Denzel Washington is transforming Broadway’s landscape with his commanding performance as Shakespeare’s tragic hero in the current revival of Othello. The production, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal ...

This is Othello made easy-breezy, bright and slick, without much to say, tragic or otherwise. Instead of insightful interpretation—or even the pleasure of watching the dual and dueling star ...

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.

“The irony is,” Clint Dyer said, “the way we’ve been performing ‘Othello’ has in some ways ... starring Adrian Lester as Shakespeare’s tragic hero, a Moor who murders his wife ...

Toby Jones, David Harewood and Caitlin Fitzgerald are all starring in a new run of Othello this winter. Here's how to get ...

Shakespeare’s OTHELLO, written in the early 1600s, predates traditional notions of decoloniality and, arguably, colonialism itself. Nonetheless, it is a text that, some contend, contains a built ...