After 400 years Shakespeare's great tragedy still has strong social and political relevance, and this celebrated production by leading actress and director Janet Suzman was momentous, as it was staged at South Africa's famous Market Theatre during the apartheid era. Tony Award-winning actor John Kani plays the title role.

Frantic Assembly's famous take on Othello revived in 2023, featuring Michael Akinsulire in the title...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

"Othello, a Moor, falls in love with Desdemona but is broken by jealousy falsely encouraged. Shakesp...

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch w...

Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-gr...
Juliet awakens from a fever dream. The lines between hallucination and memory blur as cinema and dan...

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre...

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakesp...

King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of t...

The playwright's most famous dramatic study of jealousy and its tragic effects are conveyed vividly ...
A last-minute crisis throws a small production of Hamlet into chaos. Now, they must find someone tru...
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...

Encouraged by a prophecy and his scheming wife, Macbeth sets out to be King of Scotland, but soon re...

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of...

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in th...

Half-caste bandit Omkara Shukla abducts his lady love, Dolly Mishra, from her family. Thanks to his ...

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife ha...