Othello News

Comedian Lenny Henry has been named outstanding newcomer at the London Evening Standard theatre awards.

ACTOR Sir Ian McKellen visited Hanley Castle High School, near Malvern, as part of this weeka s Anti-Bullying week.

A celebrated, stage-trained player, Derek Jacobi has made occasional forays in film and television, generally in prestigious projects.

At the finale of the last "Hamlet" to be seen in New York , Fortinbras called for a hero's cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark - "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" - only to have his lieutenant whip out a pistol and shoot Horatio.

Fabrice Calmels, the dancer with the Apollonian physique, whose height might more easily qualify him as a member of the Bulls than the Joffrey Ballet, confesses that he found it difficult to read Shakespeare's "Othello" in English.

Directors have taken all kinds of liberties with Shakespeare through the years, with widely ranging results.

Michael Sheen was well known on London's dramatic stages for nearly a decade when his Broadway lead in "Amadeus" in 1999 unleashed one of the U.K.'s best kept secrets on international audiences.

Theatre critics tend to write as if the play's the thing a ' and give the performances short shrift.

London, Lenny Henry finds moor in Othello More reviews by Henry Hitchings Formidable presence: Lenny Henry as Othello and Jessica Harris as Desdemona Look here too Casting Lenny Henry in the role of Othello ensures a breathless audience - greedy to see how the neophyte compares with such august predecessors as Paul Robeson, Orson Welles and ...

A funny thing has happened to "Othello" of late: A play traditionally usurped by the villainous Iago is now giving its title character pride of place, as the British comedian Lenny Henry's bravura occupancy of the role, at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End, is the latest to prove.

The climactic chariot race is undeniably impressive, thrilling even. But that's two minutes out of two-plus hours Ben Hur Live Rowan Moore Green's Restaurant and Oyster Bar in St James's, as more learned authorities than me have observed, is about comfort food for toffs Green's Restaurant and Oyster Bar Thalbach, Josephine, London This is one film ...

RACE TO THE FINISH Sellars fine-tunes his latest production. Photograph: Armin Bardel Watch out, Shakespeare purists: Peter Sellars is back in town.

John Ortiz with Jessica Chastain in "Othello" Over the past decade and a half, John Ortiz has acted on stage and film in dozens of projects, which have run the gamut from masterworks to monster works .

Even Olivier was daunted by Othello. "I haven't got the voice," he told Kenneth Tynan.

A prolific stage performer, Frank Finlay came to international prominence repeating his stage role as a particularly villainous Iago to Laurence Olivier's "Othello" in the 1965 film version.

A prolific stage performer, Frank Finlay came to international prominence repeating his stage role as a particularly villainous Iago to Laurence Olivier's "Othello" in the 1965 film version.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in "Othello.". The two major Shakespeare productions opening in New York in September - the John Ortiz-Philip Seymour Hoffman "Othello" and the Jude Law "Hamlet" - separately announced their complete casts this morning for their limited runs this fall.

In 1992 he won a Tony Award for his work in August Wilson 's play Two Trains Running , and in 1993 he won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on the television show Tribeca .

The trailer for Dorian Gray has appeared online, the film about the classic Oscar Wilde story of the an who never ages after his image is captured in a magical but cursed painting.

By Phil Hewitt Christopher Timothy's first main house summer season role at Chichester Festival Theatre for nearly 20 years takes him right back to the golden summer of 1964.