A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Kenny Leon, who directs Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in the history-making Broadway, teased that a movie version may be in ...

This clip could also be used to explore the play Othello and its ... footage of founder Sir Laurence Olivier, explaining what he wanted it to achieve. Making Shakespeare Contemporary.

Why did a white actor, Laurence Olivier, play the part of Othello? Could that still happen ... Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. Making Shakespeare Contemporary. videoMaking Shakespeare ...

Othello has long been understood as ... Some treatments of Shakespeare—including Laurence Olivier’s influential 1944 film of Henry V—envision the playwright’s first audiences as ...