Photo: Julieta Cervantes This article initially appeared in Vulture’s theater newsletter Stage Whisperer. Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Othello was ravaged by critics last week, and rightly so, but nobody seemed to notice the best part of the whole show — probably because it happened after all the actors left the stage. Critics specifically (and rightly) called out director Kenny Leon for setting this new Othello in “the Near Future” for seemingly no reason. “What this is meant to