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 ...

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

That carpe diem approach helped steer Gyllenhaal toward “Othello,” the blockbuster ... read the play and promptly bumped against Iago’s first monologue. “I read it through twice, and ...

But the monologue that follows is so entrancingly ... somewhat shallow and mechanical portrayal. As Cassio, whom Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona is sleeping with, Andrew Burnap (a Tony ...

Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl.

The simple, brutal brilliance of Iago’s scheme is the ... Gyllenhaal’s several monologues to the audience confessing his desire to sabotage Othello take place under an obliterating spotlight ...

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