I love Othello. I first started playing the game on the Atari 2600, as the simple concept was incredibly easy to learn, yet very hard to master. Othello was originally called Reversi until Mattel ...
Forget Verbal Kint – Iago is Keyser Soze. He’s the original chess master, the original devil who convinced the world he didn’t exist. As has often been observed, “Othello” isn’t really about Othello ...
I have had the good fortune to see two great Othellos on stage: James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1982 and David Oyelowo at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Both actors were in their 40s at the ...