Review Round-up: Does Hytner's Othello live up to hype?
Nicholas Hytner's production of Othello starring Adrian Lester in the title role opened at the NT Olivier last night (23 April 2013). Shakespeare's tragedy tells the story of newly married O…
Nicholas Hytner's production of Othello starring Adrian Lester in the title role opened at the NT Olivier last night (23 April 2013). Shakespeare's tragedy tells the story of newly married O…
Rory Kinnear & Adrian Lester The tragedy of Othello is, at heart, a domestic tragedy. For all the trappings of state and the exalted positions of the protoganists, it's the mundane story of …
It's apt that a drama set among soldiers should be presented with military precision; but corruption, cruelty and perversion can lurk amid the human innards of the machine of war, and in Nic…
A decade ago, almost to the month, Nicholas Hytner launched his new regime at the National with Adrian Lester in the title role of a searingly sceptical modern-dress version of Henry V, time…
A decade ago, almost to the month, Nicholas Hytner launched his new regime at the National with Adrian Lester in the title role of a searingly sceptical modern-dress version of Henry V, time…
Olivier, LondonTo call this production eagerly awaited would be an understatement. Ever since Adrian Lester gave us a taste of the Moor, when playing the 19th-century American actor Ira Aldr…
Production images have been released for Nicholas Hytner's production of Othello which opens at the NT Olivier tonight (23 April 2013). Adrian Lester Olivia Vinall & Rory Kinnear Olivia …
RECOMMENDED The Joffrey reprises Lar Lubovitch's evening-length interpretation of the famous tale"a theme of Chicago stages this year; the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Lyric Opera are als…
Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in the NT's Othello, the Donmar Warehouse's revival of The Weir, and m…
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: With the rampant rise of consumerism, envy is a very modern affliction - everybody wants what they can't have, and as such Iago, a great Shakespear…
INTERVIEW: BRUCE GUTHRIE The young director, who was Sam Mendes's associate on Richard III in 2011, talks to Mary Mazzilli about his current production of Shakespeare's Othello, part of Sing…
Last week, Abdulla Al Asam performed at Shakespeare’s Globe as part of Globe Education’s Sam Wanamaker Festival. The annual celebration brings together 42 students from the le…
Ahead of a new production of 'Othello', Rory Kinnear talks to Sarah Hemming about what makes Iago such a complex character
The Brothers Q are the Brothers Popular on Navy Pier. Their high-energy, hip hop-inspired "Othello: The Remix" has been extended through June 15 in the Upstairs Theater at Chicago Shakespear…
As they prepare lock horns as Othello and Iago at the National Theatre, the actors talk about jealousy, the horrors of war " and who Shakespeare's play is really aboutAdrian Lester and Rory …
London’s spring season is in full swing, with plenty of great shows to choose from. If you can’t get a ticket to see Helen Mirren play the Queen or the hit play The Curious Incid…
Even for fans for such prior endeavors as "The Bomb-itty of Errors" and "Funk it Up About Nothin'," a hip-hop version of "Othello" sounded like a stretch for the Q Brothers, that bizarre pai…
Reviewed by: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT The many stories by William Shakespeare known for their time period works are mostly tragic. They are complete with plotting, murder, mayhem, and poetic vers…
In celebration of choreographer Lar Lubovitch's 70th birthday in 2013, The Joffrey Ballet's season concludes this spring with the return of the native Chicagoan's three-act dance,Othel…
Yo Billy Shakes, turn your beatbox up to high Cause "Othello' (yeah, "The Remix") is aimin' for the sky. It's scratchin' your iambic in a "pent"-up sort of way Yeah, those Brothers known as …
The Q Brothers, born and bred in Chicago and now acclaimed worldwide, step up to the plate in this their third work, creating a masterful hip-hop homage to the classic Shakespeare tale. (re…
RECOMMENDED Wedging a rap into William Shakespeare’s plays is well-tread territory. Every so often, a hoodied Hamlet will hyperactively soliloquize the usual six speeches verbatim with…
MAY THE RAP BE WITH YOU Before Othello: The Remix it was only Shakespeare's comedies that received the Q brothers' trademark, rap-happy revision"Funk It Up About Nothin' and The Bomb-itty of…
Othello, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield, produced by Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Carmen Kahn, featuring Forrest McClendon, J Hernandez, Lauren Sowa and Eleni Delopolous
In this interview, director Suba Das tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of 'Othello' which he directed as a 'site specific horror experience' at the Rose Theatre, Bankside, in 2011.