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

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.

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 ...

OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL is in previews at the Golden and opens on 3/20. OTHELLO is in previews at the Barrymore and opens on 3/23. For the second week in a row, OTHELLO has taken the ...

Othello, an army general ... less like a tempest of feeling than another question mark on his nature. In the end, he describes himself as “perplexed in the extreme” and it’s a little ...

at beginning and end, an almost mocking, queasy-making use of something so overtly Hollywood-romantic that Dean Martin might have lent his wee hours lounge crooning to it. If Othello really and tr ...

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 ...