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 ...

American actor John Edward McCullough as Othello in 1878. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. While the question is logical to me, as a reader, a director, and a lover of Shakespeare, it’s not ...

Last spring I included in my Shakespeare on Stage and Screen syllabus the 1965 film of “Othello” starring Laurence Olivier in blackface. You might be wondering why I’m freely acknowledging ...

At the Westside Theatre in New York City, audiences are watching "Othello: the Remix," a retelling of William Shakespeare's classic play that transforms the protagonist into a rising hip-hop star.

The atmosphere is oppressively masculine. The wife of Othello’s scheming sergeant Iago, Emilia (Charlotte Bate, superb), is on the squad, and expected to be one of the lads when it comes to ...

Onscreen text reads 'Shakespeare Unbound - Othello 4.3 - In conversation with Kate Mulvany'. Kate Mulvany and Eryn-Jean Norvill sit on a bed while a film crew bustles around them.