They have been crucifying Othello into an opera," Byron wrote in 1818. The offending work was Rossini's Otello, premiered in Naples in 1816 and a great success with almost everyone else. The opera, a ...

Within this framework, then, We Happy Few's latest production, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief should fit right into that list above. And yet, I couldn't help but find myself incredibly ...

It began with a disagreement. Director Peter Sellars was chatting with the novelist Toni Morrison when the subject of Shakespeare's "Othello" came up. Sellars told her he would never stage the play. " ...

“Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic tragedy, wrought of the marital bedroom, shot through with the corrosive power of sexual jealousy and suffused with betrayal of the most personal and effective ...

Between them, author and poet Toni Morrison and director Peter Sellars have fashioned a quietly piercing inquest into the crime at the heart of Othello - an inquest conducted by the victim herself.

An appealing roughness borders every aspect of LoftOpera’s latest presentation, Rossini’s Otello. As with all their shows, what it may lack in sophistication it makes up for in sheer heartiness, like ...

From the merest suggestion in Shakespeare’s “Othello” that Desdemona may have had an African maid as a girl, Toni Morrison imagines hidden dimensions in the mind and heart of the Senator’s daughter ...