The staging does “grow into its horror”, and build into a “deeply nasty tale of murder and manipulation”, but while Morris is ...

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 ...

Read our review of Shakespeare's tragedy *Othello*, directed by Tom Morris, now in performances at the Theatre Royal ...

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 ...

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 ...

If diversifying the West End feels like slow progress, remember that we’ve come a long way since 1997, when David Harewood ...