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“The longer I am away from an audience, the more insane I feel. I need to come back to the stage in order to maintain my spiritual health.”

“‘Othello’ is famously about race, but there is just as much text devoted to his being an immigrant to the society and not being native to that culture. The specter of religious bigotry is very present. It felt essential to me to put it in a contemporary setting.”

“Society created the environment in which Othello can be brought down,” [Director Bill Rauch] said. “If you take out the social constructs, the story doesn’t happen. And that’s what makes the play so stunningly relevant.”

Because the story centers on a cross-country road trip, [composer Erin] McKeown says she wanted the score to incorporate a wide variety of American genres and idioms in order to reflect the diversity of the nation itself. The show’s rich musical vocabulary includes everything from folk, rock, and jazz to blues, gospel, and Tejano and Cajun flavors.