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Friday, October 4, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
It somehow slipped my mind that Tuesday night was the opening night for CSC’s presentation of Our Class, the searing saga of a group of Poles and Jews who grew up together in a rural Polish town only to have …
Friday, August 23, 2024
Tracking the Changes of My Life Via a Survey of Constantly Changing Communicating Tools By Elyse Sommer My first writing tool was a fountain pen and the "platform" on which my scribblings landed was a sheet of …
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Monday, August 5, 2024
MUSIC LESS MELODIC-- PLAYS SHORTER-- SOLO GAIND PRESTIGE-- MY WEBSITE REW AND ADDED REVIEWS FROK ALL OVER-- nd noq ewriremw = reflect oh as you get older…
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
After its sold-out run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in winter 2024, the off-Broadway production Our Class, by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, will transfer to Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson …
Saturday, June 29, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will play in select movie houses across North America, beginning August 19. The product…
Friday, May 10, 2024
The New York premiere cast of Our Class will reunite for the limited transfer engagement, with several to star in The Merchant of Venice as well.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
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-Palestine rallies, …
Wednesday, 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 across town at Southwar…
Tuesday, 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 political tensions give de…
Sunday, 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-director Brigid Lar…
Tuesday, 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 That Never Happened” …
Wednesday, 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’s classic is transp…
Thursday, 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 can make it through ne…
Tuesday, 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 of Pointless Lunacy …
Friday, 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 question “why is this …
Monday, October 23, 2023
Melbourne Shakespeare Company will return to the Rose Garden this December, revitalising one of Shakespeare’s rarely produced comedies; The Merchant
Thursday, 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 Dinner,” says the to…
Sunday, 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 first known Jewish c…
Friday, June 9, 2023
The world premiere of Edward Einhorn's retelling of The Merchant of Venice is currently running at the New Ohio Theatre.
Wednesday, 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-controversial play, shuts dow…
Monday, 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 Shakespeare, I was all in fo…
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
The post The Merchant of Venice (Annotated) appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
These honors recognize how individual artists and productions were affectionately remembered by individuals belonging to our team of generationally, ethnically and gender-diverse writers. The post Spite!: “T…
Monday, May 1, 2023
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 tour.
Thursday, 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 Oberman and Brigid Lar…
Sunday, 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
Wednesday, 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 notorious character…
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Oberman will star as Shylock in Brigid Larmour's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.
The 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’s East End in the 19…
Sunday, 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 guide to 2023’s most e…
Wednesday, 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 writer Suzan-Lori Park…
Thursday, 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 Ellis, will begin per…
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Why waiting outdoors for hours for free tickets is always on my family's calendar --- At 6 a.m. on a recent July morning by Central Park's Delacorte Theater, a woman smiled as my family took our place behind he…
Friday, 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 post The Merchant of Ve…
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Clyde's, Company and SIX win four awards each --- Talk about spreading the love! No one production dominated the 2022 Drama Desk Awards, which honor shows on Broadway and beyond in NYC. The Broadway productions…
Monday, 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, the Drama Desk nomi…
Sunday, 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 enuf, Manhattan Theat…
Thursday, 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.
Monday, March 28, 2022
Shakespeare Theatre Company stages "The Merchant of Venice" with John Douglas Thompson as Shylock.
When 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. Comedies like “Much Ado…
Thursday, 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, as ever, refuses to…
Thursday, 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 rests on electric weigh…
Tuesday, 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.
Wednesday, 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 black actor, John Dougla…
Monday, February 21, 2022
Director Arin Arbus digs into Shakespeare's play to show us, anew, what's been there all along. Patrick Maley reviews. The post Review: The Merchant of Venice at Theatre for a New Audience appeared first on Ex…
Saturday, February 19, 2022
We think that The Merchant of Venice was written between 1596 and 1599 – in the twilight years of Elizabeth’s reign. It was printed in 1600 and so had, one assumes, already been performed by then.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: not only putting this 1597 pl…
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
★★★★✩ John Douglas Thompson brings a steadfast gaze and spine of steel to the much-maligned Shylock The post The Merchant of Venice: A Too-Timely Production of Shakespeare’s Problem Play appeared fi…
★★★★☆ Arin Arbus directs a cast in which some act flashily and some put too much flash in their acting The post The Merchant of Venice: John Douglas Thompson’s Shylock Takes the Town appeared first…
Portia: hero or villain?
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
Friday, January 28, 2022
A dozen promising productions, including three rarely revived musicals --- While January's Off-Broadway roundup was filled with new musicals (all of which are still running by the way), February is all about ra…
Thursday, December 30, 2021
My husband, Chris Honer, who has died aged 73 of cancer, was artistic director of the Library Theatre Company (LTC) in Manchester for 27 years, from 1987 to 2014. While at LTC his many acclaimed productions inc…
Monday, December 27, 2021
Thompson will play Shylock in a new production from director Arin Arbus and Theatre for a New Audience.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Olivier Award winner Giles Terera is heading back to the room where it happens. He will return to the role of Aaron Burr in the West End production of Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre from December 17 t…
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
I skipped the 11-plus and was failing at school. Then I met Cecil Dormand, the extraordinary English teacher who transformed my life for ever I never sat my 11-plus. On the day of the test, I wandered around th…
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Audiences who are open to a show that provides both riotous comedy and bracing truths will find plenty to think about in this deconstruction of one of the Bard’s most problematic problem plays. The post Theat…
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Sara Farb and Steve Ross, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the Finally There's Sun Cabaret. FINALLY T…
Monday, September 20, 2021
By making his 12-year-old dream come true, director Mohmed Abdalla aims to send a message of hope to all mime theatre artists in Egypt, urging them to continue their efforts. Halawes (Hallucinations), a silent …
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Sean Arbuckle and Arlene Duncan, hosted by Lois Adamson. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this year's production of Serving Eliza…
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Jani Lauzon and Brefny Caribou, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss this year's production of The Rez Sis…
Monday, May 31, 2021
021/22 Season includes first Broadway-bound musical premiering on STC’s stage, “Once Upon a One More Time” and two Shakespeare plays — “Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Merchant of Venice,” a …
Monday, April 12, 2021
Your hosts Katrina Heil, Jada Jackson, Imahni King, and Emily Talerman will dive into everything Shakespeare in celebration of his birthday with student and actor Seth Holt and The Old Globe’s Erna Finci Vite…
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The actors and old friends talk about how theatre beats TV, the terror of standup – and the joys of making Yoko Ono crack up John Simm’s dad encouraged him towards a career on stage; Tracy-Ann Oberman’s p…
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and the fairy rulers of A Midsummer Night’s Dream helped the author through a traumatic childhood and feature in her memoir No Boys Play Here Sally Bayley was about 12 when she ente…
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Last week's Musical of the Month column focused on what has become of the original cast of Hairspray since they took Broadway by storm during the summer of 2002. This week, we'll take a look at what has become…
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The streaming series will combine plot points and characters from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, and more.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Polly Findlay's 2015 take on Shakespeare's trickiest comedy pays dividends Ah, 2015. Those halcyon days of packed theatres. Thank God the RSC had the presence of mind to film Polly Findlay’s production of Th…
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Thornton Wilder's classic play Our Town is getting a Broadway revival starring two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman as the Stage Manager in 2021. To Kill a Mockingbird director Bartlett Sher will helm the prod…
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
It will be Hoffman’s first Broadway role since 1989’s "The Merchant of Venice."
Monday, May 18, 2020
Bell Shakespeare has announced that it will open its archives for a special limited release of production recordings from its recent history, exclusively for schools. From Monday 25 May 2020, Bell Shakespeare�…
Monday, March 23, 2020
Judi Dench, Jade Anouka, Harriet Walter and Patrick Stewart are among the stars to perform the playwright’s words online during crisis caused by Covid-19 Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellat…
Friday, March 13, 2020
Carey Perloff, who directed Seana McKenna in the role last year in Calgary: “I am not always convinced that cross-gender casting helps illuminate Shakespeare; many of the plays focus so specifically on gender…
Thursday, March 12, 2020
By Mark Ludmon Tracy-Ann Oberman talks about playing Shylock as an East End matriarch in the upcoming tour of The Merchant of Venice This post 1930s fascism inspires Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock first appeared…
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
For a production last year in Calgary, a gender switch illuminated the Shakespeare play's conflicts in fresh and troubling ways.
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