Othello and Desdemona, passionate lovers both, are slowly done in by, well, gossip. Denzel Washington as Othello in "Othello" on Broadway. Photo by Julieta Cervante. For all of the famous ...

Kirsten Foster’s Desdemona is wonderfully open and innocent and Melissa Johns as a no-nonsense Emilia gives the performance of the evening, watching the action knowingly and then with a creeping ...

From the merest suggestion in Shakespeare’s “Othello” that Desdemona may have had an African maid as a girl, Toni Morrison imagines hidden dimensions in the mind and heart of the Senator’s ...

It opens on Othello (R.J. Jones) and Desdemona (Kenzie Kilroy) in a tableau of making love that segues into her death. As the projected face of Iago (Andrew Loviska) leers upstage, Othello begins ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For decades, much of the conversation around Shakespeare's Othello has been dominated by issues of race, by debates about who should ...

It's only taken 400 years but one of Shakespeare's female characters will finally speak her mind when the Melbourne Festival stages Desdemona in October. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's re ...

The tragedy of Shakespeare’s Desdemona haunts the literary canon. Her murder at the hands of her husband Othello, blinded by jealous rage, is no less troubling now than it was in 1603.