Summer in Dallas means Shakespeare and picnics under the stars. This year, the Shakespeare Dallas’ stage is sizzling with the ...

Molly Osborne, as Desdemona, the innocent recipient of Iago’s psychological torture, almost steals the show with her lithe portrayal of Othello’s doomed wife. But that’s practically ...

That question has been occupying the minds of theatergoers and readers since Shakespeare’s “Othello ... Canada’s Iago was “dishearteningly wooden.” David Harewood, left, and Simon ...

NEW YORK — “Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic ... Sexual insecurity is what makes this great military man so vulnerable to Iago’s machinations. He can’t come off as her weird ...

Iago, a veteran soldier, hates Othello, his general ... At least Gyllenhaal, crazy as a scorpion, makes a point of facing the people he’s bamboozling, jabbing his hand at them as if he could ...

the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with tickets going for around a thousand dollars; y’know, that one—didn’t get the memo.

When the other name jolting the box office—Jake Gyllenhaal—takes pauses in articulating Iago’s plan to poison Othello’s mind with thoughts of jealousy, you lean forward, gratefully.

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 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 ...

Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two backs? Or maybe Emilia and Cassio got their beast on. Is it a racial thing? The bottled up aggression of a warrior?

Jake Gyllenhaal, left, as Iago and Denzel Washington, right, as Othello in "Othello" on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante.

Broadway’s hottest spring ticket promises two Big Stars facing ... turn as Iago, the underling who hatches an increasingly diabolical scheme to unravel and destroy Othello.