Tom Morris will direct a cast featuring David Harewood in the title role, with Toby Jones as Iago and Caitlin FitzGerald as Desdemona. Shakespeare’s epic tale of manipulation, jealousy and toxic ...

From the moment I walked into the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre to see “Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief,” I knew I was in for an extremely niche specific experience. “Desdemona,” written by ...

British actor Molly Osborne is making her Broadway debut as Desdemona in Kenny Leon’s revival of “Othello,” performing opposite Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. The production runs ...

Othello and Desdemona, passionate lovers both, are slowly done in by, well, gossip. For all of the famous complexities of its central interracial marriage, the play is Shakespeare’s cautionary ...

Iago turns his sights to ruining Othello’s new wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), with false clues and poisonous innuendo. Envious of what Othello has, he takes it. You need energy and clarity to ...

The title means “poppy.” Some allusion to Iago’s gloating over Othello’s distress suspecting Desdemona unfaithful? “Not poppy nor mandragora / Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world ...

The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows his misplaced trust in Iago to lead him astray; the villain’s well-chosen lie wrenches apart Othello’s marriage to Desdemona ...

But the character seldom connects — not with Iago, who exploits his misplaced trust, nor Desdemona, the loving wife framed with false accusations of infidelity. Desdemona is not one of ...

One thing he isn’t is too old for the role: At 70, Washington is several decades beyond the age of the usual Othello, and while his pairing with the much younger Molly Osborne’s Desdemona ...

Othello and Desdemona, passionate lovers both, are slowly done in by, well, gossip. Denzel Washington as Othello in "Othello" on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. For all of the famous ...

Othello, an army general, has just secretly married Desdemona (Molly Osborne), much to the ire of her senator father (Daniel Pearce). For a man of Washington’s 70 years to be dealing with a ...