Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal are playing iconic villains on Broadway, and when the two actors meet up before a Friday ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.

“It’s not someone twirling their mustache, and it’s not somebody playing an evil guy. This is somebody who has found the humanity in the most obvious of villains.” Before Iago undoes ...

Iago says to Roderigo (a very good Anthony Michael ... His on-stage addresses outlining his next evil scheme are so effectively done, our audience sighed with outrage over each new calumny.

“The mighty, exotic general Othello and his diabolical flunky Iago have been stripped of their singularity, whether of greatness of spirit or capacity for evil.” Even the brilliant Hoffman fizzle ...

Psychopathy? Pure evil? Gyllenhaal asks perhaps the only sane question: Why choose? All due respect to Lady Macbeth and Richard III, Iago is Shakespeare’s greatest villain with some of the ...

The theme of racial prejudice against Othello is removed but the jealousy and purely evil motivations of Iago (renamed Ian Jagger or ‘Jags’) remain intact. Othello becomes the popular and kind ...

Iago says to Roderigo (a very good Anthony Michael ... His on-stage addresses outlining his next evil scheme are so effectively done, our audience sighed with outrage over each new calumny.