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 ...

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 ...

Atandwa Kani, who plays Othello, was a solid “starring” (main character), although I feel Shakespeare failed the powerful figure by setting him up as a gullible, savage brute who exerts ...

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 ...

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 ...