Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago in "Othello" on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. Actors can be effective at any age and the lean and charismatic Washington looks fit as a fiddle for love or war. But ...

Othello and Desdemona, passionate lovers both, are slowly done in by, well, gossip. For all of the famous complexities of its central interracial marriage, the play is Shakespeare’s cautionary ...