This article initially appeared in Vulture’s theater newsletter Stage Whisperer., Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Othello was ravaged by critics last week, and rightly ...

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution.

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

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

The new Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s Othello starring Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner ...

Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Tony Award nominee and Academy Award nominee Jake ...

Former President Joe Biden and Jill attended the premiere of Othello on Broadway alongside several celebrities. Here’s a look ...

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

The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows ... Transposing Shakespeare to something like the present day is hardly novel (it happened earlier this season in director Sam ...

Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two ... reciting his lines with all the modern-day suavity, earnestness and, when necessary, crocodile tears to fill up the ...