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.

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...

Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly ...

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

The former “View” host said that a star “grabbed my arm and forcefully turned me around… and she says to me, ‘You’ve been ...

Gyllenhaal’s several monologues to the audience confessing his desire to sabotage Othello take place under an obliterating spotlight, while one crucial scene of violence takes place in darkness ...

treachery and gullibility that should linger like a heavy cloud over the blood and anguish spilled in the final scene feels curiously evanescent here. When you come out of Othello mostly thinking ...