Three actors who have played Shakespeare's Othello, from left: Laurence Fishburne on film in 1995, Laurence Olivier in offensive blackface in 1965, James Earl Jones in 1981. (Hulton Archive / Getty ...

Billy Dee Williams in "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker," and Laurence Olivier in costume as Othello at the Old Vic.Disney/Lucasfilm Ltd./John Downing/Staff/Daily Express/Mirrorpix via ...

Bright Sheng, a music professor from the University of Michigan, has been removed from a teaching post for showing his students the 1965 film version of Othello, with Laurence Olivier as the eponymous ...

A University of Michigan music professor is facing backlash after showing the 1965 film "Othello" with star Laurence Olivier in blackface, a school official announced. David Gier, dean of the School ...

Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of the acclaimed feature film, Othello starring Sir Laurence Olivier and co-starring Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Joyce Redman available now. Stuart Burge ...

The DVD release of the film of Othello should not be called Othello; rather it should be Olivier. This was Stuart Burge's 1965 movie direction of John Dexter's 1964 Chichester stage direction of the ...

Shakespeare didn’t make Othello’s race fully clear — the character may have been from Spain or the Middle East. But the role is usually played as Black — James Earl Jones and Laurence Fishburne have ...

World-renowned composer and University of Michigan (UM) professor Bright Sheng will not be investigated by the university’s Equity, Civil Rights and Title IX office (ECRT) for possible discrimination ...

The University of Michigan football stadium in Ann Arbor in 2020. (Paul Sancya/AP) Is it okay for a professor to show his students a movie involving blackface? This complicated question is roiling the ...