Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are a potent pair in Shakespeare's "Othello," elevating a pricey Broadway revival that lacks imagination.

Denzel Washington is the star of the show but he plays his Othello with a remoteness that can throw off the play.

The production has already set a record for non-musicals with the highest grossing single week in Broadway history ...

Denzel! Jake! Tickets near a thousand dollars!—how strange that the production itself is so lacking in execution.

It was hard also not to wish Broadway audiences could have experienced Sam Gold’s scorching Othello that played downtown in 2016. That production starred Daniel Craig, David Oyelowo and Rachel ...

The great tragedy of Othello, perhaps, is how easily he allows his misplaced trust in Iago to lead him astray; the villain’s well-chosen lie wrenches apart Othello’s marriage to Desdemona ...

Why does Othello, the great Black general ... Jesse Green is the chief theater critic for The Times. He writes reviews of Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regional and sometimes ...

It won’t be enough to say Othello is well acted throughout ... is having no such trepidations. Last seen on Broadway in the excellent 2019 solo one-acts Sea Wall/A Life, Gyllenhaal bounds ...

But this stage truly belongs to Gyllenhaal, who is fully invested from the jump. His franticly gesticulating Iago is a force of nature, and the Tony nominee (for 2021’a Sea Wall/A Life) showcases his ...

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Running time: 2 hr 35 min (with intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: Othello, director Kenny Leon’s new Broadway staging of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies starring two of our greatest ...