Othello has long been one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays — the story of a person of color, told by a white man in Elizabethan England. Now it’s getting a fresh look at Sacred Heart ...
Shakespeare Theatre Company will present the 37th annual Mock Trial at Harman Hall. This event features an esteemed bench, ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Kalamazoo College’s Festival Playhouse has announced that one of its next productions will be William Shakespeare’s Othello. The play will be performed November 3-6 at the Nelda K.
Be ready to get your Bard on as the Waterworks Theatre Company offers a triple treat, with “Othello,” “The Tempest” and “Macbeth” offered as part of Michigan’s largest professional outdoor Shakespeare ...
The tragedy of “William Shakespeare’s “Othello” isn’t simply the violence that explodes in the play’s denouement. True devastation festers from the onset, when the play introduces Black Othello and ...
After a more than a year of pandemic-related delays, cancellations and adjustments, the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre returned to its stage this fall with a classic: Shakespeare’s The Tragedy ...
Can "Othello" be "Othello" without the taint of racism? Probably not. But can the degree of racial and religious bigotry attending upon Shakespeare's powerful general be downplayed while still ...
Even among Shakespeare’s tragedies, “Othello” is remarkably grim. By definition, all of the tragedies are full of people making calamitous choices, and the bodies do tend to pile up. Still, there’s ...