Sure, Iago is very loud and obnoxious, but the twists and songs were very funny and the new AA's (Iago, Zazu, Tiki Goddess) were very realistic and fluid. It just felt really energetic and fun. (Oh, ...

(For those unfamiliar with “Othello,” serious spoilers follow.) It’s the resentment-riddled Iago, the ultimate disgruntled employee, who takes command of his commander, and pretty much ...

Iago, a veteran soldier, hates Othello, his general, a Moor who fights for Venice: Iago’s missed out on a promotion, and he also half believes a rumor that Othello has seduced his wife ...

Senior Editor and Writer If Othello is a tragedy, the new Othello on Broadway—starring Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, with tickets going for around a thousand dollars ...

Jake Gyllenhaal is officially back on Broadway. The Oscar-nominated actor is currently starring as Iago opposite Denzel Washington in the new production of Shakespeare's Othello, which just ...

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play the titular general alongside Jake Gyllenhaal playing the villianous Iago. Bruce Glikas/WireImage Along with Washington's family, the Othello premiere was also attended by Ariana DeBose ...

The William Shakespeare play, set in “The Near Future,” sees Gyllenhaal’s Iago manipulate Denzel’s title character into thinking his wife, Desdemona (Molly Osborne), is having an affair ...

But that’s as close to an overarching concept as Leon gets. Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Gyllenhaal conveys the ...

If Washington seems still to be finding a steadier approach to the Moor, Gyllenhaal, as the great villain Iago, is having no such trepidations. Last seen on Broadway in the excellent 2019 solo one ...

Iago’s crude ruse involving a lost handkerchief now makes perfect sense. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Iago, and he bursts on stage like some MAGA fanatic launching into another rant about a D.E.I. hire.

Iago Hale is an associate professor of specialty crop improvement at the University of New Hampshire. Michael Kantar is an associate professor of plant genetics at the University of Hawaii ...