Alejandra Escalante as Desdemona and Chris Butler as the title character in "Othello." (Courtesy Natasha Moustache) The green-eyed monster is a hydra-headed beast in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's ...

As everyone is well aware — thanks to department stores and TV commercials everywhere — it is back-to-school time. Oddly, most students seem to worry more about what their back-to-school outfit is ...

After a more than a year of pandemic-related delays, cancellations and adjustments, the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre returned to its stage this fall with a classic: Shakespeare’s The Tragedy ...

Lend Me Your Ears is a podcast miniseries exploring how Shakespeare’s works have shaped our modern views on politics. Each month, host Isaac Butler will dig into a different Shakespeare play to ...

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 ...

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Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and that the Metropolitan Opera is finally discontinuing the practice of blackface in productions of ...

David Harewood analyzes the great villan Iago and how he manipulates Othello. David Harewood was the first black actor to play Othello at London’s National Theatre, triumphantly taking on the role in ...

Meanwhile his Detective Sergeant, Iago, lurks in the shadows, plotting revenge for his slight in being overlooked for promotion. Ola Ince’s Othello is very much in the here and now, bristling with the ...

In a show grounded in Shakespeare, it was a Langston Hughes quote that stuck in my head. “What happens to a dream deferred,” said Debra Ann Byrd in her autobiographical solo show, “Becoming Othello, A ...