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 ...

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

Tony-winning actor Andrew Burnap, who plays the male lead in Disney's live-action remake of the 1938 animated classic movie ...

Where Washington’s interpretation may lack a tragic dimension, it makes perfectly clear why an old codger like Othello would think his young wife lusts for a hot young lieutenant like Cassio.

After all the blaring headlines around “Othello” on Broadway—Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution. Senior Editor ...

When you come out of Othello mostly thinking how impressive the actors playing Cassio and Emilia were, something’s askew in the balance. Those secondary roles acquire vitality and depth of ...

Andrew Burnap, center, as Cassio and the cast of “Othello” on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. What might surprise even this actor’s fervent fans is the joy he takes in the lines ...

Iago sets out to poison Othello against his virtuous young wife, Desdemona (Osborne), claiming she is having an affair with the handsome lieutenant Cassio (Burnap). Washington and Gyllenhaal's ...

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?

Iago sets out to poison Othello against his virtuous young wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), claiming she is having an affair with the handsome lieutenant Cassio (Andrew Burnap). The cast is ...

Iago sets out to poison Othello against his virtuous young wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), claiming she is having an affair with the handsome lieutenant Cassio (Andrew Burnap). The cast is ...