The “Elsbeth” actor, now starring in “Othello” at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, stays sharp by regularly toggling among film, ...

The New York theater company Bedlam stages a remarkably effective four-actor production of the classic tragedy.

Bedlam has revealed the cast for its upcoming production William Shakespeare’s Othello. Directed by Eric Tucker, the production will feature four actors inhabiting the 19 roles of Othello, distilling ...

Othello is arguably Shakespeare’s most controversial show, often called a “problem show,” given its deep explorations into race and misogyny. Putting on a production of Othello is no small feat, but ...

Barbara Broccoli has confirmed that her first post-James Bond feature Othello has secured financial backing in Qatar and will shoot in the Gulf territory in the autumn of 2026. David Oyelowo, Rachel ...

The setting (by Chloe Lamford) is an abstract one, a series of high-banked steps onto which projections create occasional images. Overhead is a lighting rig illuminated by a piercing white rectangular ...

It can be easy for Othello – manipulated and out-argued by Iago – to end up “looking like a sideshow” in the play that bears his name, said Susannah Clapp in The Observer. In Tom Morris’s new ...

Since the 1980s, as numerous actors of colour have tackled the role, the importance of Othello's race has shifted further from the centre of productions. At the National Theatre in 2013, Adrian Lester ...

Despite lucid central performances from the starry trio of David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald, this Othello feels strangely old fashioned. What we have here is stately West End ...

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Stellar performances anchor this compelling production, which features David Harewood returning to the title role Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and ...