If you've ever considered Denzel Washington to be a Hollywood star, you may have been mistaken. In case you didn’t know, Denzel is currently starring alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the brand-new Broadway production of Othello, which opened at the Barrymore Theater on Sunday.

As Cassio, the handsome lieutenant that Othello has promoted above Iago, Andrew Burnap makes the most solid effort to put something behind the words, but he’s hardly the play’s engine. That combustive energy has to come from the poisonous plotter,