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

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are megastars, but that doesn’t solve the problems of this maddeningly bland production ...

Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution.

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

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...