This article initially appeared in Vulture’s theater newsletter Stage Whisperer., Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Othello was ravaged by critics last week, and rightly ...

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

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 ...