The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps ... Transposing Shakespeare to something like the present day is hardly novel (it happened earlier this season in director Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet ...

A tale of cunning manipulation written during a plague, with actors keeping the audience gripped with every nod and slash, makes “Othello” otherworldly. Denzel Washington, in the titular role, and ...

The scene in which this strange alteration occurs is one of the most gripping, baffling episodes in Shakespeare, and it remains so in the starry Broadway revival of “Othello” that opened on ...