The lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war, but you don’t feel much of a sexual connection between Othello and Desdemona as Washington goes for a more

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him.

The actor stars alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in a Broadway production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, directed by Kenny Leon, that struggles to make music of the text.