But the production of “Othello” co-headlined by Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lacks a Big Idea to make it seem like ...

William ShakespeareDirected by: Kenny LeonCast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap, Anthony ...

The lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war, but you don’t feel much of a sexual connection between Othello and Desdemona as Washington goes for a more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both actors were in their 40s at the time. Denzel Washington offers a quite different Othello by the simple fact that the actor is 70 years old. His Othello is definitely not middle-aged.

Those are the words that flash on stage before the latest star-studded adaptation of Othello, now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. But I’m still not entirely sure why.

Now, in Act III, Scene 3 of “Othello,” he vows to kill her. What has happened? Why does Othello, the great Black general, the savior of Venice in a war with the Ottomans, resolve to murder ...

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 ...