Philip Seymour Hoffman shines in lengthy <cite>Othello</cite>
There is a stripped-down, stark intelligence at work in Peter Sellars' updated Washington rethinking of <cite>Othello</cite>, which boasts an unsettling, altogether captivating anti-star turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago to John Ortiz's slick and confident Moor. Alas, by the time the project has rethought Shakespeare's tragedy and rethought the rethinking, four hours have passed more as a lengthy psycho-politica…