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

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

If Othello is a tragedy, the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with ...

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

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

His Othello is definitely not middle-aged. Washington’s Othello is old, and when he launches into one of the character’s soliloquies, he does not address the audience. He’s speaking only to ...

“Othello” is “Othello” — one of the richest and most wrenching of Shakespeare’s tragedies. It would take a wildly misbegotten production to spoil it entirely. But that hypothetical ...

why not add touches to the staging that make clear we’re one step closer to dystopia? Instead, the stage is dominated by columns with a terra cotta effect, but little else; the world Othello and ...