Actor gives new insight into 'Othello'

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: For the past two years, Javon Johnson has been itching to play Othello.
"It felt like it was time for me to take a stab at it," Johnson says. "I wanted to get started."
Johnson, an actor, playwright and graduate of the master of fine arts acting program at the University of Pittsburgh who now lives in Los Angeles, nearly played the role here in 2006 when the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company produced "Othello Noir," an adaptation that viewed Shakespeare's tragedy through the lens of film noir.