The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta<br> Reviews by Adam Feldman
In weighing the two plays, the productions keep a heavy thumb on Shakespeare's side of the balance.
In weighing the two plays, the productions keep a heavy thumb on Shakespeare's side of the balance.
Actress Lily Rabe has returned to the Broadway production of the Public Theater's The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. The company celebrated its Broadway opening Nov. 7, though press …
Tony Award nominee David Harbour, currently starring as the lovestruck and loyal Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at the Broadhurst Theatre, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with ran…
The Public Theater, with Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel present THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, starring Al Pacino as Shylock and Lily Rabe as Portia at the Broadhurst Theatre this fall. THE MER…
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The Public Theater staging of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Lily Rabe, will return to Broadway Feb. 1 with a few new faces on the rialto.
Pacino has the kind of charismatic intensity that means you can’t take your eyes off him whenever he is onstage, but the particular pleasure of Daniel Sullivan’s production is th…
New work from Amy Herzog and Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek; plus Shakespeare hits Broadway
Today we are talking to one of the biggest and youngest sensations of the season, Al Pacino's highly-lauded Portia to his Shylock in the sold-out MERCHANT OF VENICE, as well as a recurring s…
Two-time Tony and Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino stars as the implacable moneylender Shylock in the Public Theater production of The Merchant of Venice. Tony Award-winning director Da…
New York audiences will have the chance to compare Shylocks. F. Murray Abraham will reprise his performance as the Shakespearean moneylender in the Theatre for a New Audience's 2007 producti…
The Public Theater holds the press opening for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Saturday, November 13. So as not to conflict with the Broadway opening of Elf on Sunday, November 14, the producers resp…
Advance sales for the The Public Theater production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, starring Academy Award winner Al Pacino, are soaring, according to the New York Post.
Broadway has waited with bated breath for the much-lauded transfer of The Merchant of Venice, which first bowed at Shakespeare in the Park earlier th...
So often, when Shakespeare is modernized the concept overshadows the play itself but Darko Tresnjak has wisely chosen to avoid a concept, and instead simply updates the play's surroundings. …
A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally complicated times.
A new staging of “The Merchant of Venice,” from Theater for a New Audience, stars F. Murray Abraham as Shylock.