Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly ...

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

The simple, brutal brilliance of Iago’s scheme is the way that it takes advantage of a certain intractable reality. Othello, for all his brilliance, is the Other — a man of color among white ...

Gyllenhaal’s performance fuels the show, and when his Iago takes a needed break after getting Cassio wounded and Roderigo murdered, this “Othello” never quite regains either its focus or its ...

Jake Gyllenhaal is officially back on Broadway as Iago, opposite Denzel Washington in the new production of Shakespeare's Othello. On a visit to The Late Show, Gyllenhaal discussed the character ...

Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in “Othello” on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. Actors can be effective at any age and the lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war.

It won’t be enough to say Othello ... color the old monster bedeviling Othello. If Washington seems still to be finding a steadier approach to the Moor, Gyllenhaal, as the great villain Iago ...