The stars of a new Broadway production of Shakespeare's tragic tale about friendship and betrayal explain why they say they've worked their whole careers for this moment.

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 ...

Running time: 2 hr 35 min (with intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: Othello, director Kenny Leon ... the play is chock full of intriguing secondary characters, all well played in this production.

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 ...

Perhaps in response to that difficulty, Washington seems to treat the character as removed from his own self, as if Washington is playing Othello who is himself playing the character of Othello ...

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 ...

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 ...