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

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...

Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl. By David Rooney ...

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

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. Washington, here, is the title character, a military general ...