If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him.
Well, “the masses” may be a stretch — the new production of “Othello” that Washington leads, now playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, has broken box office records on the strength of orchestra tickets selling for over $900 a seat. That lucky group of people who will get to see this “Othello” will get to luxuriate in Washington’s silky, fluent delivery of the Bard’s English, and to thrill to the painful irony of Othello’s fundamental lack of understanding that he’s being played by the jealous, venal Iago
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