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

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 ...

Sherri Shepherd got into a confrontation with an “unnamed celebrity” at the star-studded “Othello” opening night on Broadway ...

It was a star-studded opening week for Othello. Celebrities like former President Joe Biden, J. Lo, Tamron Hall, Sherri Shepherd, Nia Long, Gayle King, Colman Domingo, and Nicole Ari Parker made ...

“A tragedy of racial conflict” was how Robeson described “Othello,” who said, around the time of the London run in 1930, that he was “killing two birds with one stone” in performing ...

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 ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Staged on a stately set of distressed classical grandeur designed by Derek McLane, this stylish but shallow modern-dress Othello is set in “The Near Future ...

By Lexi Carson Othello may have just hit Broadway, but the future of seeing it on the silver screen — with Denzel Washington — looks promising, too. Leon went on to say he doesn’t know what ...

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 ...

“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 ...