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

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 ...

a mean trick played not so much on the woman but on the gullible man (the full title of the play is The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, not The Tragedy Of Desdemona, His Horrifically ...