Megalomaniacal Director Sellars Dumbs Down <cite>Othello</cite>, by John Simon

"Adapting" Shakespeare, with cuts, additions and rearrangements, was a theatrical industry for several centuries. What can the world's greatest dramatist do that a hack playwright or megalomaniac director cannot improve upon? Some updatings may have their merits but with Peter Sellars, all debts to reason are canceled. I have long denounced his depredations on the theater, but what he has concocted in New York with <…

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