First Nighter: The Royal Shakespeare Company's Outstanding "Othello" is Screened
About that embroidered handkerchief so crucial to Othello's undoing in the William Shakespeare tragedy that takes his name: When it's...
About that embroidered handkerchief so crucial to Othello's undoing in the William Shakespeare tragedy that takes his name: When it's...
Shakespeare's tale of tragic romance begins ASP's "Affairs of the Heart" season tonight.
Daniel Craig, who recently said he wasn't keen on returning to Broadway due to aging audiences and rising ticket prices, may instead give Off-Broadway a go.
Daniel Craig has kept his word and is in negotiation to return to the Big Apple stage! The current 007 and Great White Way alum is looking to play Iago in Othello at New York Theatre Worksho…
Daniel Craig, who last starred on Broadway opposite his wife Rachel Weisz in Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL, recently expressed a desire to 'do some theater in New York' but not on Broadway. Well,…
Beginning September 23, the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Othello will play in select movie houses across North America. The production, which opened to r…
Lenny Henry says he knows just how Othello must have felt. At school, there were only three black kids in the whole place. "There'd be a fight everyday over words. Coon, wog, nigger, OK…
Beginning September 23, the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Othello will play in select movie houses across North America.  The production, w…
Beginning September 23, the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare'sOthello will play in select movie houses across North America. The production,which opened to rav…
The Boston company opens its 2015-16 season with a classic Shakespearean tragedy.
Most actors who play one of the great tragic Shakespearean roles become marked for life by the experience, but none more so,
By Stephen Collins This is a curious production of Othello. You get the bones of the story, clearly, but the flesh, the marrow, the heart - all of which depends upon the rich characters of t…
And what color should he be? That's the subject, more or less, of my "Sightings" column in today's Wall Street Journal. Here's an excerpt. * * * In this country, Steven Berkoff is mostly kno…
Yes, a thousand times yes, William Shakepeare's "Othello" is about race and otherness.
Steven Berkoff claims restricting the Shakespearean role to black actors is 'racism in reverse'. But colourblind casting does happen " and it benefits minority actorsFor every action, there …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonIqbal Khan's modern-dress production takes its time but finally delivers a powerful punch, with Iago as its pivot"Your words and performances ar…
Steven Berkoff: “Again, one suffers the bilge of a critic who in reviewing Othello warbles happily how fortunate we are, that actors no longer black up. As if that’s all there is…
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (Reuters) - The 14th-century Cypriot tower that is the fictional setting of Shakespeare's play "Othello" reopens next month after undergoing renovation following decades of…
Controversial theatre veteran Steven Berkoff has attacked a critic for "warbling" about "how fortunate we are that actors no longer black-up" for roles.
The veteran theatremaker has stirred up controversy in a 245-word Facebook post
The days when it was thought acceptable for a white actor to black up as Othello are well behind us. But Lucian Msamati makes theatrical history now in being the first black actor ever to pl…
“Might [race] be erased, no longer an issue between the two men " or for the audience, who just get to watch two top-drawer actors? Or might it be highlighted, even encouraging us to s…
An intriguing bit of casting might just make Iqbal Khan's new production of Othello at Stratford-upon-Avon feel " in the words of RSC artistic director Gregory Doran " "freshly minted": not …
SPECIAL GUEST REVIEWER DARREN RAYMOND OF INTERMISSION THEATRE COMPANY TAKES ON RSC OTHELLO, SKYPE, RAP, BOXBEAT AND ALL….. The RSC made a bold statement by casting their first ever bla…
Casting Lucian Msamati as Iago in Shakespeare's classic offers a crucial shift of perspective that is long overdue, says Dominic Cavendish