The curtain goes up, nobody can help you." "Othello" is the Tony-winner's sixth Broadway show. He plays the title character, Othello, the military commander stirred into a murderous rage after his ...

The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army; his new wife, Desdemona; his lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted ensign, Iago. Because of its ...

but also the petulance after he’s passed over by revered general Othello for promotion to lieutenant. The actor injects notes of ingratiating charm into his character’s evil manipulations ...

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 his ...

As Cassio, the handsome lieutenant that Othello has promoted above Iago ... that’s always a bad excuse for not giving characters a full psychophysical life. It’s all well and good to avoid ...

“Othello,” unique among Shakespeare’s tragedies, is lean. (It’s even leaner in this production, thanks to some judicious cutting.) It has fewer major characters than most, and fewer sideshows ...

His Othello is definitely not middle-aged. Washington’s Othello is old, and when he launches into one of the character’s soliloquies, he does not address the audience. He’s speaking only to ...

Other characters walk off the stage — Gyllenhaal’s Iago runs. The rest of the cast holds their own up against the top-billed stars. As Othello’s doomed wife Desdemona, Molly Osbourne plays ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. Washington, here, is the title character, a military general ...