On March 6, the American Ballet Theatre’s African American principal dancer, Calvin Royal III, launches the company’s spring 2026 season.
Othello (Qais Dana) marries Desdemona (Maddie Gillespie) in a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy that casts all the characters as soldiers in the Israeli army. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.
NEW YORK — “Othello” is Shakespeare’s most domestic tragedy, wrought from the marital bedroom, shot through with the corrosive power of sexual jealousy and suffused with betrayal of the most personal ...