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

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

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

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 ...

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

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?

William Shakespeare’s "Othello" is now back on Broadway in a starry revival led by two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington ...

In director Kenny Leon’s stiff staging of “Othello,” a jarhead Iago (Jake Gyllenhaal) runs circles around a bewildered Othello (Denzel Washington), plotting his superior’s downfall out of ...