The Wire” actor Wendell Pierce, now starring in “Othello” at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, wants to be in film, television and ...

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

Three teen girls were killed after the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls crashed into the truck in which they were riding, causing it to roll into an irrigation canal Sunday afternoon near Othello, ...

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 ...

If diversifying the West End feels like slow progress, remember it wasn’t that long ago that accurate representation was barely even a talking point. It was 1997 when David Harewood finally became the ...

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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 ...

In 1997, David Harewood was – shamingly, given the lateness of the date – the first Black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre. It’s his misfortune that in returning to the part some three ...