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Love, hate, longing, jealousy, deception, passion, confusion, humor, loyalty and pain make for great drama. And all those emotions are on full display in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. The play is as ...

He first played Othello in 1997, when the role was still synonymous with white thespians ‘blacking up’. Now, nearly three decades on, he, Chiwetel Ejiofor and other Black actors discuss how best to ...

Is Othello black? With the news that David Oyelowo will play Othello opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago and that the Metropolitan Opera is finally discontinuing the practice of blackface in productions of ...