Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl.

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for the next nearly three hours.

The lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war, but you don’t feel much of a sexual connection between Othello and Desdemona as Washington goes for a more