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.

The First Shadow began stalking Broadway last week, selling out the first two previews of its engagement at the Marquis, ...

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

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

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

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

The production has already set a record for non-musicals with the highest grossing single week in Broadway history ...

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

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 ...

The lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war, but you don’t feel much of a sexual connection between Othello and Desdemona as Washington goes for a more ...