This is Othello made easy-breezy, bright and slick, without much to say, tragic or otherwise. Instead of insightful interpretation—or even the pleasure of watching the dual and dueling star ...

But to see him rush numbly through Othello’s blood-chilling poetry before he strangles the woman he loves is to feel robbed of tragic beauty ... find a straight-up hero in Othello, but Iago ...

Washington and Gyllenhaal star as the tragic general Othello and his manipulative advisor Iago, respectivaly, in Broadway’s first staging of the play in more than 40 years.

Othello has an almost paternal energy with his wife that screams “be home by 10 p.m.” more than deadly lovers’ quarrel.