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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, ...
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 ...
Kenny Leon's Broadway revival of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal as Othello and Iago and Molly Osborne as Desdemona, opened at the Barrymore Theatre on March 23.
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 ...
The English playwright and poet was wise in the ways of human failing, and specifically with his villainous character, the flag-bearer Iago, in the play Othello. In an aside in the second act of ...
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 ...
Getty Images “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place,” the villainous Iago declares in “Othello” — and judging by Jake Gyllenhaal’s over-the-top dressing room renovation ...
Denzel Washington, in the titular role, and Jake Gyllenhaal, as the scheming Iago, give William Shakespeare’s classic new life. Molly Osborne, as Desdemona, the innocent recipient of Iago’s ...
He plays the title character, Othello, the military commander stirred into a murderous rage after his ensign, Iago, convinces him his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful. Jake Gyllenhaal plays ...
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 ...
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.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Othello” premiere, one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, had Oscar-winning actors, Grammy recipients and legendary directors in the audience on ...