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As Cassio, the handsome lieutenant that Othello has promoted above Iago, Andrew Burnap makes the most solid effort to put something behind the words, but he’s hardly the play’s engine.
Renowned artist Kara Walker has released a series of drawings and paintings that include a piece titled “Barack Obama as Othello ‘The Moor’ With the Severed Head of Iago in a New … ...
If the term seems familiar from art and literature—but still confusing—there’s a good reason. Shakespeare's play Othello features a Moorish general in the Venetian army. The 19th-century ...
Othello, referred to in the play as “the Moor” and represented as an outsider in productions for over 400 years, is the target of Iago’s manipulation.
Keith Hamilton Cobb loves Shakespeare. If he didn’t, there would be a lot less to “American Moor,” his acclaimed two-actor play about racism in the American theater. The award-winning work ...
Peter Francis James plays the lead in Center Stage’s production of “Othello,” but he hasn’t always been a fan of Shakespeare’s famous Moor. As a young man studying at … ...
The green-eyed monster is a hydra-headed beast in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's staging of “Othello,” presented by the American Repertory Theater through Feb. 9.
Fighting Art, Othello at the RSC, ... Othello runs at the RSC in Stratford from 4 June ... And Hugh Quarshie presents a Sunday Documentary Looking for the Moor which is being broadcast on July 12th.