With the heartbreaking death of Dame Maggie Smith just short of her 90th birthday, the entertainment world lost one of its ...
The roles of Othello and Iago are famously challenging. Until recently, the title role was usually played by white actors (John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Orson Welles), blacked up.
Billy Dee Williams said this week he believes actors should be allowed to do blackface, specifically praising Laurence Olivier's performance in Othello. "When he did Othello, I fell out laughing ...
She won the first of six Oscar nominations in 1965, starring opposite Laurence Olivier in "Othello", before scooping the prize four years later for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". Her performance ...
Othello is also a set text on the post-2015 ... We see archive footage of founder Sir Laurence Olivier, explaining what he wanted it to achieve. Making Shakespeare Contemporary.
Why did a white actor, Laurence Olivier, play the part of Othello? Could that still happen today? How Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre in 2011 ...