But to see him rush numbly through Othello’s blood-chilling poetry before he strangles the woman he loves is to feel robbed of tragic beauty ... find a straight-up hero in Othello, but Iago ...

"I'm not saying he's like Othello tragic. But he has that human flaw ... And into a time where someone like Hero can be lied ...

Denzel Washington joined fellow luminaries at the James Earl Jones Theatre to honor the iconic actor, alongside Whoopi ...

Classic literature and early cinema often depicted villains as one-dimensional figures whose primary role was to serve as a ...

Whether “Othello” traffics in or refutes reductive stereotypes — if Othello’s lustful jealousy is a racially tinged tragic flaw ... Washington is playing a hero in search of an identity.

Ian McKellen as Richard II (BBC, 1969) Ian McKellen as the tragic King Richard in the 1971 ... He had also appeared the 1965 film version of Othello, which starred Laurence Olivier.

This is Othello made easy-breezy, bright and slick, without much to say, tragic or otherwise. Instead of insightful interpretation—or even the pleasure of watching the dual and dueling star ...

The production has already set a record for non-musicals with the highest grossing single week in Broadway history ...

“Othello” is Shakespeare’s only major work in which the hero and antihero are given equal weight. (If you keep score by monologues, Iago has eight of them; Othello only three.) And as the ...