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 ...

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 ...

they seem to be pursuing two off-kilter routes through their characters’ play-journeys. If you’ve seen other productions of Othello, you know there are many choices and interpretations around ...

Which character’s point of view wound up ruling the night? In other words, who owned the production? Othello may have the glamour, the grand poetic speeches and a death scene for the ages.

By Lexi Carson Othello may have just hit Broadway ... Future,” sees Gyllenhaal’s Iago manipulate Denzel’s title character into thinking his wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), is having ...

Both Gyllenhaal and Sprawl electrified the stage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on the night I attended a press preview alongside Denzel Washington who was the titular character, Othello.

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.

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

“Othello on Broadway” tells the story of a recently married military general, played by Washington, who is betrayed by a lieutenant, Gyllenhaal’s character, who accuses Othello’s wife of ...