Kenny Leon directs the first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy to play Broadway in more than 40 years, also featuring Molly Osborne, Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl.

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,

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.