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

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

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

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

Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution.

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are a potent pair in Shakespeare's "Othello," elevating a pricey Broadway revival that ...

I have had the good fortune to see two great Othellos on stage: James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1982 and David Oyelowo at the ...

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

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

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...

But this stage truly belongs to Gyllenhaal, who is fully invested from the jump. His franticly gesticulating Iago is a force ...