She was and is right, though it’s clearly not Shakespeare racking up those grosses: It’s Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. And while it’s true that a Venn diagram exists between celebrity-driven ...

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

"I know my price, I am worth no worse a place," the villainous Iago declares in Shakespeare's play. Clearly, the actor ...

Jake Gyllenhaal is officially back on Broadway as Iago, opposite Denzel Washington in the new production of Shakespeare's ...

Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two backs? Or maybe Emilia and Cassio got their beast on. Is it a racial thing? The bottled up aggression of a warrior?

But the insidious scheming by Iago to discredit newly promoted Cassio by poisoning Othello’s thoughts with jealousy too seldom makes sparks fly. A deserving Tony winner for his shattering work ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery. By Jesse Green Just moments ...

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 ...