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

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

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

When it does it’s thanks to Gyllenhaal, and co-stars Kimber Elayne Sprawl (as Emelia, Iago’s wife) and Andrew Burnap (Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant). ADVERTISEMENT The first head-scratcher ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tony winner stars opposite Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot in the anticipated live-action adaptation Tony winner Andrew ...