The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The Off-Broadway production of “The Merchant of Venice” opened Off ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Merchant of Venice is traditionally categorized as a comedy, but the character ...

The choice of location (not Venice) and date for the update is crucial here – the eruption of violence in the East End occasioned by the rise of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Oswald ...

John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus’s caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play. By Alexis Soloski More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at ...

THE literature of The Merchant of Venice, which is reviewed and summarized in this new volume of Mr. Furness’s invaluable edition, 1 is less in amount than has gathered about the former plays of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are getting a foothold in London’s East End. Shylock, ...

Condensed into just over two hours, it’s a thoughtful take on Shakespeare’s most problematic of plays, with a blinding central performance from Patsy Ferran as Portia. The character of Shylock (played ...

It's a widely accepted truth: reading Shakespeare is good for you. But what should we do with all of the bigoted themes in his work? We talk to a group of high schoolers who put on the Merchant Of ...

Al Pacino famously spends years obsessing on the Shakespearean roles he takes on, but the results pay off. Such is the case with his Shylock in the Central Park production of the Bard's ...

Theatre For A New Audience is an American group based in New York City, and their 2022 production of The Merchant of Venice, which here marks the company’s Edinburgh debut, bristles with new word ...

In her “brilliant and uncompromising” staging of The Merchant of Venice, Abigail Graham never shies away from what this play is really about, said Oliver Ainley on What’s on Stage. Namely: “a group of ...