Reporting from San Diego — Of Shakespeare’s major tragedies, “Othello” seems to be having the most success in the theater of late. The Old Globe’s new outdoor production, which launched its 2014 ...
An Othello for our times. It’s the promise of many a production, and understandably so. Enduringly, depressingly topical, Othello feels like a challenge to theatre makers to explore why. And there are ...
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 whose ...
Much of what follows is purely a matter of taste. There will doubtless be those who find Tim Carroll’s new production of Othello for the RSC to be sumptuous, layered, emotional and powerful. I’m ...
From his unhinged Hamlet to a sympathetic Richard III, Mark Rylance has always been a great re-inventor of Shakespeare’s key roles. Now, returning to the Globe in “Othello” after a few years away (not ...
Berlin design firm Studio NAND and Dr. Tom Cheesman of Swansea University have created a data visualization project that tracks and compares German translations of Shakespeare’s Othello dating back to ...