In “The Earth Is the LORD’s and the Fulness Thereof,” the British theologian Morris Joseph (1848-1930) writes about the purpose of Shavuot, the holiday during which the book of Ruth is read and that ...

Photo: Keith Hamilton Cobb is the playwright of the new show Nine Moons, an overture to Shakespeare’s Othello. Photo courtesy ...

Even more minor characters like Roderigo (Motell Foster), and Cassio (Babak Tafti) make their characters understandable to us, and in return we become invested in them. Othello may end in a ...

He whispers venomous words, painting Desdemona as unchaste and Cassio (whom Iago deeply resents), Othello’s lieutenant ... and cracks relationships. Healing speech is severely lacking and ...

NEW YORK — “Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic ... I don’t think Andrew Burnap’s Cassio, notwithstanding that actor’s charming eloquence, gives Washington enough competition.

There’s a sense of occasion to the new “Othello” now at the Barrymore ... He and Andrew Burnap, playing Cassio, one of Iago’s many persuadable fools, find nice moments together, largely ...

The other central relationship ... “Thou art on thy deathbed,” the chilling line Othello says to Desdemona before killing her. Burnap as Cassio and Sprawl as Emilia imaginatively fill out ...

The battle of wits and wills is on at the Barrymore Theatre where Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are going toe to toe as Othello and ... winner Andrew Burnap as Cassio, Kimber Elayne ...

The cast includes Molly Osborne as Othello’s wife Desdemona, “Snow White” star Andrew Burnap as lieutenant Cassio, Kimber Elayne Sprawl as Iago’s wife Emilia and more. This month during ...

Does Iago suspect wife Emilia and Othello has made the beast with two backs? Or maybe Emilia and Cassio got their beast on. Is it a racial thing? The bottled up aggression of a warrior?

As golden boy Cassio, Burnap is crisp and appealing, his drunk scene and the aftermath quite touching. It’s hard to find a straight-up hero in Othello, but Iago’s plain-spoken wife ...