Wall Street Journal Review:

"Traditional stagings of Shakespeare's plays are hard to come by these days, and it's refreshing to be reminded, as Orlando Shakespeare is currently doing in its outstanding version of "Othello," that the greatest of all English-speaking playwrights can scrape along quite nicely without hip costumes or self-consciously clever directorial touches. Brian Vaughn's production takes place in 16th-century Venice and Cyprus, not Greenwich Village or Nazi Germany, and unfolds on a flexible Elizabethan-style unit set designed by Bert Scott that hurls you from scene to scene with electric swiftness. Nothing is allowed to divert your attention from Shakespeare's harsh portrayal of jealousy run rampant, and the cast tells the tale briskly and forcefully..."