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

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

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...

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 ...

The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows his misplaced trust in Iago to lead him astray; the villain’s well-chosen lie wrenches apart Othello’s marriage to Desdemona ...

Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in “Othello” on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. Actors can be effective at any age and the lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war.