The spectacular performance of Othello in The National Theatre displays the in-depth character of its protagonist Othello by displaying whip marks on his back as a tribute to his past as a slave.

Denzel Washington is transforming Broadway’s landscape with his commanding performance as Shakespeare’s tragic hero in the current revival of Othello. The production, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal ...

This is Othello made easy-breezy, bright and slick, without much to say, tragic or otherwise. Instead of insightful interpretation—or even the pleasure of watching the dual and dueling star ...

Where Washington’s interpretation may lack a tragic dimension, it makes perfectly clear why an old codger like Othello would think his young wife lusts for a hot young lieutenant like Cassio.

“The irony is,” Clint Dyer said, “the way we’ve been performing ‘Othello’ has in some ways ... starring Adrian Lester as Shakespeare’s tragic hero, a Moor who murders his wife ...

On the tiny stage of a straw-hat theater in Cambridge, Mass, last week Paul Robeson made his first U.S. appearance in Othello. After seeing him, scholars might still insist that Shakespeare meant ...

Ken Nwosu as Othello and Ralph Davis as Iago in Othello ... Anyway, it’s really quite profound watching Shakespeare’s tragic hero literally doing battle with himself. There are lots of nice ...