Othello News

As go the daylight hours in summer, so goes the stage. Or something like that. If only eloquence came as easily as it did for the Bard.

The Society of London Theatre has released a report noting that 2007 was the West End's most successful year ever as the trade group celebrates its 100th anniversary.

Full casting has been announced for the opening production of the Donmar Warehouse's year-long residency at the Wyndham's Theatre, which kicks off Sept.

Zac Efron ... the New York Times noted he was "darkened with as much bronzer as Laurence Olivier in Othello ." Photo: Chris Pizzello View Slap on the face More men are using the guyliner and bloke's bronzer, ...

The Bard... maybe it's time to give him a rest. Photograph: Corbis Apparently when Laurence Olivier was touring the US in Othello at one performance he encountered a woman leaving at the interval.

Strenuous transplantation of Shakespeare to the screen: restless changes of locale; a sex scene ; a chummy, almost winking, relationship between Kenneth Branagh's Iago and the close-up camera.

Critics have been sizing each other up again this week. Mark Shenton has been reviewing the reviews of the Sunday Telegraph's Tim Walker.

“Leave me alone. I'm having a bad fuel day !”

Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky. bad fuel day The mood or feeling one experiences after having just filled his or her vehicle with $4.00+ per gallon gasoline. via Baxojayz

I work in a fairly upscale restaurant owned by a celebrity chef who for once in his life, shall remain nameless because, you see, this story is not about him. via SLAMMED

Tribune reporter Chiwetel Ejiofor doesn't Google himself. Not really a vanity searcher, he says. via Chicago Tribune

Khartoum, a film created in the 1960s and staring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, and Ralph Richardson, is the sort of inspiring epic that could never be made in these politically correct times. via Associated Content

“Shakespeare's most perfectly composed play”

"Hamlet" and "King Lear" get the lion's share of acclaim. "Twelfth Night" is generally deemed the greatest of Shakespeare's comedies, as "Henry IV, Part 1" is the most esteemed of the history plays. via SF Gate

“I mean, it's a huge challenge. It's a huge piece, and I'm very excited because I feel like it's going to help me to grow. ... I'm going to have to use different parts of myself.”

Laurence Fishburne has been taking risks since the age of 14, when he spent 18 months in the Philippines playing a young soldier in Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now.' Since then, he has won Tony, Drama Desk and Emmy awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination.

Fishburne's latest challenge is 'Thurgood,' his first one-man play, which opens April 30 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. For 90 minutes with no intermission, he fills the stage as the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to sit on the Supreme Court. Read more

“I sought solace in prayer and reading the Koran. Subject to that, Shakespeare remained my most intimate companion and chief source of comfort.”

TODAY is William Shakespeare's birthday. It is unlikely that it will be marked by much fanfare. via News.com.au

Judge Brett Cullum found himself brushing his teeth in iambic pentameter after sitting through this account of love and betrayal staged at a historic location. via DVD Verdict

Some like it hot ... Gina McKee and Richard Coyle in Pinter's The Lover. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Affairs are the musky, secretive stuff of playwrights' dreams. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

Every role cements his place in pop culture history Celebrity interview Laurence Fishburne's place in pop culture history is so ingrained that most people can barely look at a red pill without thinking of him. via Bank Rate

After doing OK business in theaters last summer , the drama Talk to Me is finding many more converts on DVD. via FilmStew

FICTION: Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh in Othello MR ADEBAYO, I read your article regarding the Bard's portrayal of black and Jewish people . via The Voice

HMAS Sydney was wrongly described as a battlecruiser when it was a light cruiser of the Leander class . via Guardian Unlimited