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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end ...
As Cassio, the handsome lieutenant that Othello has promoted above Iago, Andrew Burnap makes the most solid effort to put ...
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are a potent pair in Shakespeare's "Othello," elevating a pricey Broadway revival that ...
The two-time Oscar winner is the principal reason audiences are shelling out upwards of $900 to see Kenny Leon's frustratingly underpowered revival of Othello on Broadway. Playing the Venetian ...
The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows his misplaced trust in Iago to lead him astray; the villain’s well-chosen lie wrenches apart Othello’s marriage to Desdemona ...
Denzel Washington is the star of the show but he plays his Othello with a remoteness that can throw off the play.
But The Post has decided to review the show a week early ... over at William Shakespeare’s 420-year-old “Othello” at the Barrymore Theatre. Perhaps the required sealed bags are meant to ...
Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that ...
If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. But that’s about all they’ll get. Clumsily staged by ...
By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Staged on a stately set of distressed classical grandeur designed by Derek McLane, this stylish but shallow modern-dress Othello is set in “The Near Future ...
The two-time Oscar winner is the principal reason audiences are shelling out upwards of $900 to see Kenny Leon’s frustratingly underpowered revival of Othello on Broadway. Playing the Venetian ...