Roderigo is a role in Othello, a play that opened Broadway in 2025. Broadway is getting more of Shakespeare's Moor. Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lead Othello, a play that has not been seen on ...

I have had the good fortune to see two great Othellos on stage: James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1982 and David Oyelowo at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Both actors were in their 40s at the ...

There are a lot of small, sincere plays that are also very boring. I won’t name names, because I’m not a complete monster, but, as anyone who frequents the theatre understands, a seventy-five-minute ...

Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl. By David Rooney Chief ...

Where in the world are we? A huge Lion of Saint Mark seal tells us Venice, where Shakespeare’s play begins. Later we see a backdrop of sea when the action hits Cyprus. But Riccardo Hernandez’s set is ...

Staging a Shakespeare tragedy with just four actors sounds like a potentially comic stunt or an unfortunate advertisement of dire economic straits, in either case a radical diminishment of the play.

This production in the nation’s capital, with an enticingly opaque Iago, attempts to make Shakespeare’s tragedy relevant to our age of conspiracies. By Rhoda Feng Reporting from Washington, D.C. See ...