‘Othello’ Theater Review: Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal Bring Star Wattage to Middling Revival Otherwise Short on Electricity. Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare ...

Othello Opening night: March 23, 2025Venue: Broadway's Barrymore TheatreWritten by: William ShakespeareDirected by: Kenny LeonCast: Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal ...

Despite the formidable presence and occasional specks of greatness from Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, and a winner in Jake Gyllenhaal’s feisty Iago, this is one slooow-thello.

Kimber Elayne Sprawl also wows as Iago’s defiant wife Emilia, who becomes increasingly jaded over the ways in which women are oppressed and degraded. Washington, 70, ...

His Iago, my review said, was someone for whom “revenge is a dish best served hot, like a Big Mac picked up on the fly.” London, 2013 Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear ...

If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. Washington, here, is the title character, a military general ...

Summer in Dallas means Shakespeare and picnics under the stars. This year, the Shakespeare Dallas’ stage is sizzling with the jealousy and passion of Othello, now playing at Samuell-Grand Amphitheater ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Audra McDonald star on Broadway in “Othello” and "Gypsy" and bond over playing villains.