Denzel Washington, in the titular role, and Jake Gyllenhaal, as the scheming Iago, give William Shakespeare’s classic new life. Molly Osborne, as Desdemona, the innocent recipient of Iago’s ...

Denzel Washington is the star of the show but he plays his Othello with a remoteness that can throw off the play.

“Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic tragedy, wrought of the marital bedroom, shot through with the corrosive power of sexual jealousy and suffused with betrayal of the most personal and effective ...

Though Shakespeare provides many possible reasons he might have wanted to poison his commander with lies about Desdemona, awakening the famous green-eyed monster of jealousy, we are typically ...

The King met Italian actor Luca Zingaretti, famed for playing the food-loving Inspector Montalbano, when he celebrated the ...

A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Desdemona is not one of Shakespeare’s strongest female characters, and while London stage regular Molly Osborne gives her the necessary duality of self-possession and vulnerability to counter ...

and then watched the next crop of acting hopefuls perform an emotional scene from Shakespeare’s Othello. After watching a scene that included the moment Othello strangles his wife Desdemona on ...

(Desdemona was, if you please ... The production broke records for a Shakespeare play on Broadway, clocking 296 performances. By the end of the 1982 production, Frank Rich wrote, you will ache ...

Indeed, I’m not sure when I last saw a Shakespeare in period dress ... and while his pairing with the much younger Molly Osborne’s Desdemona seems a bit less passionate than fatherly at ...