Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that ...

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

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

I have had the good fortune to see two great Othellos on stage: James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1982 and David Oyelowo at the ...

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...

The play starring Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal officially opened Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and marks the third ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think ...

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...

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 ...

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?

By Lexi Carson Othello may have just hit Broadway ... The William Shakespeare play, set in “The Near Future,” sees Gyllenhaal’s Iago manipulate Denzel’s title character into thinking ...