Monday, March 4, 2024
Although security has been increased at London's Criterion Theatre, The Merchant of Venice star Tracy-Ann Oberman was still asked not to leave the venue following a performance due to pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
The rise of fascism in the 1930s East End is given a human face
Hot on the heels of Brigid Larmour’s updating of The Merchant of Venice to the East End in 1936, a spirited new musical acr…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:48AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Southwark Playhouse, LondonFraming the battle within a 1930s romance and a 2024 walking tour, Adam Lenson’s production has big ballads, hip-hop-ish commentary and high camp
Headline politi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, February 25, 2024
Tracy-Ann Oberman turns Shylock into a heroic Jewish anti-fascist
It’s an unhappy time to be staging Shakespeare’s problematic play, given its antisemitic content, so hats off to adaptor…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
The final day of the Folger Theatre’s Reading Room Festival proved as plucky and spirited as ever. At the center of this Shakespeare-filled Sunday was a staged reading of “Everything Tha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant Of Venice 1936, direct from the RSC. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (Eastenders, Doctor Who) as Shylock, Shakespeare�…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:38AMThursday, December 28, 2023
Land of Idiots
By Steven Leigh Morris
There’s almost nobody I’ve spoken with who doesn’t anticipate 2024 with dread. The most optimistic assessment is that we’ll be lucky if we ca…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:24PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
L-R: Front Chloe Taylor, Rob Elk, Andrea Hutchman; Rear: Pat Towne, Johanna McKay, Judy Heneghan, Mark Fite, Joe Keyes, and Peter Breitmayer at door. (Photo by Louisa Gauerke)
A Display …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:31AMFriday, November 10, 2023
ECHOES OF DARKNESS Jews gather, laughing and chattering, offering a toast as they run down the aisles to settle downstage for a Passover meal with candles, prayers and the ancient ques…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AMMonday, October 23, 2023
Melbourne Shakespeare Company will return to the Rose Garden this December, revitalising one of Shakespeare’s rarely produced comedies; The Merchant
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 05:22AMThursday, October 19, 2023
The touring production of “The Merchant of Venice 1936” has been targeted by antisemites, its star revealed. Tracy-Ann Oberman, who has starred in “Doctor Who” and “Friday Night Di…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AMSunday, September 24, 2023
The photographs below offer a small sample of the many Jewish characters that have been portrayed in plays and musicals on Broadway, focusing on the most familiar and the most recent. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMFriday, June 9, 2023
The world premiere of Edward Einhorn's retelling of The Merchant of Venice is currently running at the New Ohio Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Is “The Merchant of Venice” antisemitic? Was Shakespeare? “The Shylock and the Shakespeareans,” playwright and director Edward Einhorn’s retelling of the Bard’s long-controver…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Having seen (read “been positively blown away by”) several of Edward Einhorn’s previous shows produced through Untitled Theater Company No. 61, and being a long-time lover of Shakespe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon discovers what critics have been saying about Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman’s new production of The Merchant of Venice 1936, currently on…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Watford Palace theatreA striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare’s problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London
In Tracy-Ann Ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMSunday, February 26, 2023
The actor talks to Sarah Crompton about setting ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the time of Oswald Mosley’s fascists, and her thoughts on trigger warnings
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:30AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma – while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare’s most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Oberman will star as Shylock in Brigid Larmour's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMThe Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC’s reopened Swan theatre this summer
A new take on Shakespeare’s controversial play The Merchant of Venice, set in London’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, January 1, 2023
‘A Little Life’ comes to the stage, Sheridan Smith and Lily Allen return to the West End, and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is transported to 1930s Cable Street – we bring you our guid…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:08AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will present AAFCA Salutes Broadway. The event will honor The Merchant of Venice and Till star John Douglas Thompson, Topdog/Underdog wr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Complete casting has been announced for the previously reported return of the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Take Me Out. This revival of Richard Greenberg's 2002 play, directed by Scott E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Why waiting outdoors for hours for free tickets is always on my family's calendar
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At 6 a.m. on a recent July morning by Central Park's Delacorte Theater, a woman smiled as my family took…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Darius Daughtry and Grace Arts Center reimagine The Merchant of Venice in 1940s Fort Lauderdale to examine tensions when when infighting exists within the African American community.
The pos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Clyde's, Company and SIX win four awards each
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Talk about spreading the love! No one production dominated the 2022 Drama Desk Awards, which honor shows on Broadway and beyond in NYC. The …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Theatre's return season has been triumphant and rocky. Because of COVID-19, schedules are constantly changing, not just for individual productions but for theatre awards, too. Traditionally,…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMSunday, April 24, 2022
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Suffs @ The Public Theater, To My Girls @ Second Stage, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is e…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PMThursday, March 31, 2022
The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play but, increasingly, it seems that the problems are with us, as much as they are with Shakespeare.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 28, 2022
Shakespeare Theatre Company stages "The Merchant of Venice" with John Douglas Thompson as Shylock.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:03PMWhen Shakespeare wrote “The Merchant of Venice,” it was done as comedy and the hero and heroine did not die—that was the differentiation at the time between a comedy and tragedy. Comed…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:25PMThursday, March 10, 2022
Abigail Graham's pacy production focuses on the moneylender's fate
A supposed 'comedy' gives the moneylender Shylock pride of place
The Merchant of Venice is a comedy, you say? Shakespeare,…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:03AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAbigail Graham trims and reshuffle’s Shakespeare’s play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning
A stained, lidless plastic container res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
New productions of “The Merchant of Venice” and “Black No More” aim to reflect our current racial politics. The results are uneven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
By JK Clarke Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) has taken a bold step in its new production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. But not for the expected reason (casting a blac…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:59PMMonday, February 21, 2022
Director Arin Arbus digs into Shakespeare's play to show us, anew, what's been there all along. Patrick Maley reviews.
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