That question has been occupying the minds of theatergoers and readers since Shakespeare’s “Othello” was first performed in London in the early 17th century. And it is doubtless being ...

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

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 ...

But the “moorish” general’s race, and what it means in the context of the story, demands interpretation onstage. At the very least, suggesting that Othello’s race is even somewhat ...