Is This “Othello” Too Shakespearean?

Shakespeare’s Othello has been making a splash on Broadway this season. Playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theater from March 23 to June 8, Othello shows features of the greatest actors alive today in one of the best dramas ever written. With Denzel Washington as Othello, Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, and Molly Osborne in her Broadway debut as Desdemona, Kenny Leon has directed a production that has broken box office record after box office record.