So you haven't read Othello by William Shakespeare? Then get ready for the most villainous, absolutely devious, and ...

A tale of cunning manipulation written during a plague that leaves no theater seat empty, with actors keeping the audience ...

The worst of Iago’s malicious lies besmirches the virtue of Othello’s wife, the faithful Venetian beauty, Desdemona. “Look to ...

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

A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are a potent pair in Shakespeare's "Othello," elevating a pricey Broadway revival that lacks imagination.

Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution.

But the insidious scheming by Iago to discredit newly promoted Cassio by poisoning Othello’s thoughts with jealousy too seldom makes sparks fly. A deserving Tony winner for his shattering work ...

Yet reflecting on his own portrayal of Othello some 50 years later, Willard White (the renowned opera singer) said, “One thing you have to remember is that he’s not a jealous Black man ...