Iago convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this ...

The stars of a new Broadway production of Shakespeare's tragic tale about friendship and betrayal explain why they say ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can't think ...

Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, has become the top-grossing (eight performance) play in Broadway history.

But this stage truly belongs to Gyllenhaal, who is fully invested from the jump. His franticly gesticulating Iago is a force ...

An “Othello” revival, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, has made history.

but also the petulance after he’s passed over by revered general Othello for promotion to lieutenant. The actor injects notes of ingratiating charm into his character’s evil manipulations ...

By Lexi Carson Othello may have just hit Broadway ... Future,” sees Gyllenhaal’s Iago manipulate Denzel’s title character into thinking his wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), is having ...

Perhaps in response to that difficulty, Washington seems to treat the character as removed from his own self, as if Washington is playing Othello who is himself playing the character of Othello ...