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So you haven't read Othello by William Shakespeare? Then get ready for the most villainous, absolutely devious, and ...
A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.
A tale of cunning manipulation written during a plague that leaves no theater seat empty, with actors keeping the audience ...
It was a starry night on Broadway on Sunday, March 23, as the celebrities stepped out to support the opening of the Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal-led revival of William Shakespeare’s "Othello, ...
William Shakespeare’s "Othello" is now back on Broadway in a starry revival led by two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal. PEOPLE has the exclusive first look at ...
“Othello” is Shakespeare’s only major work in which ... At a time when anti-miscegenation laws were still on the books in the States, there were worries that the interracial love affair ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The show improves upon the company's two ...
And all that’s timely for every generation.” Washington is also no stranger to Shakespeare. At 22 years old, he played Othello while a student at Fordham University. In 2005, he starred as ...
NEW YORK — “Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic tragedy, wrought from the marital bedroom, shot through with the corrosive power of sexual jealousy and suffused with betrayal of the ...
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 ...
“Othello” is “Othello” — one of the richest and most wrenching of Shakespeare’s tragedies. It would take a wildly misbegotten production to spoil it entirely. But that hypothetical ...