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The article reviews several plays at the Stratford Festival in Ontario including "The Merry Wives of Windsor," starring Brigit Wilson and Sophia Walker, "Othello," directed by Nigel Shawn and starring Michael Blake and Gordon S. Miller, and "Mother's Daughter," directed by Alan Dilworth.

The article focuses on "Othello," the first stage production at the Delacorte Theater in summer 2018 with four core design roles filled by women, namely scenic designer Rachel Hauck, costume designer Toni-Leslie James, lighting designer Jane Cox and sound designer Jessica Paz. Topics covered include reason for the decision of director Ruben Santiago-Hudson to work with these women, and the drive for gender parity on professional theater crews.

The article reviews the theatrical production of the play "Othello," written by William Shakespeare, directed by Sam Gold and starring David Oyelowo, David Wilson Barnes and Marsha Stephanie Blake on December 12, 2016 at the New York Theater Workshop in New York City, New York.

An interview with Hayat Kamille, who will play the role of Bianca in the English Touring Theatre company’s revival of Richard Twyman’s critically acclaimed production of "Othello," is presented. She mentions factors contributing to her interest in the field of acting as well as her excitement of being in "Othello" again.

The article looks at the nonprofit organization the New York Theater Workshop, with a particular focus on its forthcoming productions of the play "Lazarus," which features music by David Bowie and "Othello," starring actors Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, and the reception of its production of the play "Fondly, Collette Richland" by Sibyl Kempson. Topics include producer Richard Fox and artistic director James C. Nicola.

The article reviews the theatrical production "Othello," directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, running at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City.

The article reviews William Shakespeare's play "Othello," directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, starring Peter Jay Fernandez, at the Delacorte Theater in Manhattan, New York City through June 24, 2018.

The article reviews a revival of William Shakespeare's theatrical production "Othello," starring Corey Stoll and Alison Wright, performed at Delacorte Theater in New York City through June 24, 2018.

The article reviews three Broadway plays including "Othello," "Log Cabin," and ""Carmen."

The article previews the musical "Othello" directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and starring Heather Lind and Chukwudi Iwuji at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York City.

The article reviews a play Othello by actors Heather Lind and Chukwudi Iwuji at Delacorte Theater in New York on May 29, 2018.

The article reviews several theatrical performances in New York City from January 15-22, 2017 which include "Holiday Inn" starring Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu, "The Humans" written by Stephen Karam and "Othello" directed by Sam Gold.

A calendar of concerts and shows to be held in New York City on December 12, 2016 is presented which includes a one-night-only musical concert “Bright Star" at the Town Hall, the classic opera “NABUCCO" at the Metropolitan Opera, and “OTHELLO" at the New York Theater Workshop.

The article previews the play "Othello," directed by Sam Gold and starring David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig, to be performed at the New York Theater Workshop in New York City from November 22, 2016.

The article offers listings of New York City Off-Off Broadway theatrical productions such as "Avow" by Bill C. Davis, "Beirut," written by Alan Bowne and directed by Gwenevere Sisco, and "Othello" by William Shakespeare.

This section offers news briefs on theater as of October 2015 that include on live Broadway stories to be posted on the photo- and video-sharing web site Snapchat, the play "Othello" starring Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo at the New York Theatre Worskshop, and the world premiere production of the cult novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" at the Boston University Theatre in Massachusetts.

The article discusses two very popular Shakespeare productions in London, England. "Othello" starring Ewan McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor has been selling out regularly at Donmar Warehouse. At the National Theater a production of "Much Ado About Nothing," starring Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker has also been well-received.

Reports the inclusion of Afro-American actor Timothy Stickney in the drama 'Othello,' directed by Mark Edward Land and presented by Africa Arts Theater Co. in New York City. Story of the play tackling racial politics; Incorporation of African rhythms with a modern sensibility; Citation of the stage works of Stickney.

In the article, the author discusses the criticism of actor Steven Berkoff as of early July 2015 of the review by drama critic Paul Taylor of the "Independent" on the new production of the Royal Shakespeare Co. of the play "Othello."

The article reviews the theatrical production "Othello," directed by Hamilton Clancy, performed by the Drilling Company theater group with members Aaron Scott and Ivory Aquino, performed at municipal parking lot in Lower East Side in New york until August 16, 2014.

Toronto AS part of this year's Cultural Olympiad in London, Shakespeare's Globe theater will stage 37 of the playwright's works in 37 different languages in the spring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This year's Harkness Dance Festival, which opens at the 92nd Street Y on Feb. 17, brings exciting news: The slippery choreographer Doug Elkins has updated his 1990 dance ''Mo(or)town,'' a play on Shakespeare's ''Othello'' set to the music of Motown. ''Mo(or)town/Redux,'' right, will be performed on March 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and on March 4 at 3 p.m. The festival closes on March 18 with Susan Marshall's ''Sawdust Palace.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The irreverent director Peter Sellars has said he thinks ''Othello'' is a terrible play, but does he need to work so hard to prove it to us? In his high-tech 2009 staging of the tragedy, he stuffed Philip Seymour Hoffman's Iago into an ill-fitting green sweater, and reduced that masterful agent of chaos to a mundanely bitter cuckold overshadowed by a bed of television sets. For the current White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, Mr. Sellars brought a similarly minimalist, presentational style to ''Desdemona,'' a perplexing reimagining of the title character that comes off as an elegant lecture. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NANTERRE, France -- A decade ago Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and Peter Sellars, the experimental theater and opera director, got into a fierce argument about Shakespeare's ''Othello.'' He said it was a terrible play that made no sense and had outlived its usefulness. She said he was dead wrong. The conversation led to a creative pact: Mr. Sellars would stage ''Othello''; Ms. Morrison would find a way to talk back to Shakespeare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike its writer's-blocked hero ''Shakespeare's Slave'' suffers from a few too many ideas. The play, presented in repertory with an adaptation of ''Henry IV, Parts I and 2'' at the Harold Clurman Theater, is about a fictional romance between William Shakespeare and an African slave. Unfortunately it tries to cram in just about every literary theme imaginable: racism, sexism, grief, greed, revenge, ambition, infidelity, pearl-clutching hypocrisy. It also grafts the origins of several of Shakespeare's masterworks -- including ''Hamlet,'' ''Othello,'' the Henry IV plays and the ''Dark Lady'' sonnets -- onto an already overloaded plot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Shakespeare on the Sound in Norwalk, Conn., announced that its summer 2010 production would be ''Othello.'' As with its staging this year of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream,'' the play will be directed by Joanna Settle and feature music and songs by Stew. ... The original Off Broadway cast of ''Next Fall'' will return when it moves to Broadway next year. The Geoffrey Nauffts play, about gay lovers with differing views on faith and love, will feature Patrick Breen, Maddie Corman, Sean Dugan, Patrick Heusinger, Connie Ray and Cotter Smith. It begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater on Feb. 16 and opens on March 11. ... The Classic Stage Company has announced the lineup for its First Look Festival, which runs Nov. 16 to 30 and will feature the work of Luigi Pirandello. First up is ''Six Characters in Search of an Author,'' directed by Tony Speciale; next will be ''Right You Are if You Think So,'' directed by Craig Baldwin; and finally John Turturrowill appear in ''Henry IV,'' directed by Brian Kulick. Details are at classicstage.org. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An interview with actor John Ortiz of the theatrical production "Othello" is presented. When asked about his Latino role in the play, Ortiz related that he has a similar background of the race issues with Othello being black. He thinks that Latino actors like Raul Julia and him must play roles of importance and stature. The actor admitted having encountered many opportunities to enter film and television but theater gives him the chance to be more well rounded.

The two major Shakespeare productions opening in New York in September -- the John Ortiz-Philip Seymour Hoffman ''Othello'' and the Jude Law ''Hamlet'' -- separately announced their complete casts on Thursday for their limited runs. Mr. Ortiz (Othello), far left above with Mr. Hoffman (Iago), will be joined in the Public Theater production by Julian Acosta (Roderigo), Gaius Charles (Duke/Lodovico), Jessica Chastain (Desdemona), Liza Colon-Zayas (Emilia), Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Montano/Bianca) and LeRoy McClain (Cassio). Directed by Peter Sellars, ''Othello'' is scheduled to run for only 23 performances and will begin previews at the Skirball Center at New York University on Sept. 12 -- the same night, as it happens, that ''Hamlet'' begins previews at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway. Mr. Law, above right, who has been playing ''Hamlet'' in the West End this summer, will come to Broadway with the same company of actors who have been with him in the Donmar Warehouse production in London and at Elsinore in Denmark, where the production will run Aug. 25-30. The actors include Ron Cook (as Polonius and the First Gravedigger), Peter Eyre (the ghost of Hamlet's Father and the Player King), Geraldine James (Gertrude), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Ophelia) and Kevin R. McNally (Claudius). ''Hamlet'' is scheduled to run for 12 weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Public Theater's 2009-10 season will include ''Othello,'' starring John Ortiz in the title role and Philip Seymour Hoffman (above, left, with Mr. Ortiz) as Iago, as well as the world premiere of ''Snake'' by the Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks (''Topdog/Underdog''), left, the theater announced on Tuesday. ''Othello,'' directed by Peter Sellars, will run for 23 performances beginning on Sept. 12; given the potential audience interest, the production will run in a larger space than the Public can offer: the 860-seat Skirball Center at New York University. In October the Public will present the world premiere of ''Idiot Savant,'' written and directed by Richard Foreman and starring Willem Dafoe. Also in the fall, a trilogy y Tarell Alvin McCraney (''Wig Out!'') will run in two separate productions; the work is collectively titled ''The Brother/Sister Plays Part 1 & Part 2.'' (Part 2 consists of two plays.) The monologist Mike Daisey will perform his piece ''The Last Cargo Cult'' in December, and Ms. Parks's new play will open in March. A new play by John Guare, ''Free Man of Color,'' to be directed this season by George C. Wolfe, was postponed and is not a part of the 2009-10 calendar; a Public spokeswoman said the theater still wants to do that piece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alabama ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Montgomery. This summer at the theater that many locals call ''The Shakespeare'' the playwright can be seen at his most serious (''Othello,'' through June 6) and at his silliest (''The Comedy of Errors,'' through June 7). The remainder of the season includes a Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays (Friday through next Sunday) that features ''The Civil War Project,'' early readings of two new works commissioned in part by the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel and intended for production in the 2010-11 season to mark the Civil War's sesquicentennial (that's 150 years). (800) 841-4273, asf.net. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For all those who tried and failed to snare a ticket to the recent critically acclaimed production of ''Othello'' by Theater for a New Audience, there's hope yet: it's returning for an unusually limited engagement -- 12 performances in mid-April -- with an eye toward an eventual commercial run. Jeffrey Horowitz, the company's artistic director, said he had heard from ''a number of interested commercial parties'' about the show since it closed last week, including potential investors and producers who did not have a chance to see a performance during its three-week run at the Duke on 42nd Street Theater. The production, directed by Arin Arbus, will return to the Duke from April 15 to 24, with the entire cast intact, including John Douglas Thompson, below left, as Othello and Ned Eisenberg as Iago. ''What we want to do is get it back up on its feet, have more of the public see it, have commercial parties see it, and see where it goes from there,'' Mr. Horowitz said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The spring theater season this year is enticingly rich, both on Broadway and off. But I suspect it will not bring a Shakespeare production to equal the gripping ''Othello'' now blazing across the stage of the Duke on 42nd Street Theater, courtesy of Theater for a New Audience. I can say this partly because Shakespeare has unfortunately become a relative rarity on major New York stages, but primarily because this production is so terrific. No, there are no marquee names -- British, American or anything else -- to entice the verse-averse or make the show a necessary ticket for cocktail party chatter. Shakespeare is the star here, but he is handled with the kind of artistry we always hope for and rarely find. This is among the most sensitively directed, eloquently designed and impeccably acted productions of a Shakespeare tragedy that the city has seen in years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

New works and favorite classics like ''Cinderella'' and ''The Nutcracker'' are among the productions in the Joffrey Ballet's 2009-2010 season, the Chicago company announced. The season begins on Oct. 14, with the Chicago premiere of Lar Lubovitch's ''Othello,'' which runs through Oct. 25. Other highlights include Robert Joffrey's ''Nutcracker'' (Dec. 11 to 27); Frederick Ashton's ''Cinderella'' (Feb. 17 to 28, 2010); and a mixed repertory program, ''Eclectica'' (April 28 to May 9, 2010), which will include Gerald Arpino's ''Reflections'' well as the premieres of works, currently untitled, by the choreographers James Kudelka and Jessica Lang. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A rare Olympian music -- forceful, beautiful and inaudible to ordinary ears -- seems to dictate the rhythms of John Douglas Thompson's performance in the title role of Shakespeare & Company's production of ''Othello.'' From the moment he sets foot on the stage of the Founders' Theater here, this truly commanding Venetian general is a figure of monumental poise but also of instinctive, exotic poetry. His speech is both crisp and molten, as if its stately cadences were keeping in check a naturally flowing passion. For once you understand exactly why a sheltered, impressionable young woman like Desdemona (an aptly credulous-seeming Merritt Janson) would have fallen in love with his storytelling and been emboldened to ask him to woo her. This man's voice opens windows to a world where life takes place at a more exalted pitch than most people can even imagine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents a preview of theatrical production for fall 2004 in New York City. "Richard III"; "Reckless"; "Nobody's Lunch"; "Othello"; "Hecuba."

Features the performance of the ballet 'Othello,' by the San Francisco Ballet and choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. Lucia Lacarra's performance of Othello's wife Desdemona; Absence of memorable melodies in the play.