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

"I know my price, I am worth no worse a place," the villainous Iago declares in Shakespeare's play. Clearly, the actor ...

Othello, featuring Denzel Washington, has just debuted on Broadway, and according to the show’s director, Kenny Leon, there ...

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

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

Decorative nods to his character’s manipulative modus operandi and the Venetian setting of the play abound in the actor’s ...

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

The stars of a new Broadway production of Shakespeare's tragic tale about friendship and betrayal explain why they say ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal have been in major movies the past year. Washington was a total standout as Macrinus in ...

Jake Gyllenhaal's girlfriend, French model Jeanne Cadieu, supported him at the opening of his play with Denzel Washington, ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think ...

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...