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

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

Sunday was opening night on Broadway for "Othello," featuring two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Denzel Washington and Jake ...

a mean trick played not so much on the woman but on the gullible man (the full title of the play is The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, not The Tragedy Of Desdemona, His Horrifically ...

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

Washington, here, is the title character, a military general whose personnel choices have enraged Gyllenhaal’s scheming underling. The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows ...

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