No less a Shakespearean than Mark Rylance recently said yes. Director Rupert Goold thinks shining a light on that prejudice is important. Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson says r…
Makram Khoury, a celebrated actor based in Israel, will make his RSC debut in The Merchant of Venice in Stratford-upon-Avon
Polly Findlay's production opens in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in May, playing in rep with Othello
Patsy Ferran will play Portia in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s upcoming production of The Merchant of Venice. Ferran, who is currently starring
Today in 1915, The Merchant of Venice opened at the 44th Street Theatre. A tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, the play believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. The title cha…
Jonathan Pryce will play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as part of Shakespeare’s Globe’s summer season, which also includes As You Like It, starring Michelle Terry. Pryce, who…
Jonathan Pryce is set to demand his pound of flesh at Shakespeare’s Globe. The two-time Tony winner will play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, which will kick off the Globe’s 2…
Multi-award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce will play Shylock in Jonathan Munby's The Merchant of Venice, opening the Globe Theatre season on 23 April.
The close confines of the Almeida are perfect for this updating of Rupert Goold's extraordinary production set in 21st-century Las Vegas Continue reading...
While the rest of London theatre offers pantomimes and festively-themed shows to mark the Christmas season, the Almeida takes a distinctly different approach with its modern retelling of Sha…
Yes, I'm all shook up. Rupert Goold's Las Vegas-themed production of the Merchant won't appeal to people who disapprove of Elvis, but I loved it. I found it one of the most entertaining nigh…
Rupert Goold's celebrated production comes to London with Ian McDiarmid as Shylock
Almeida, LondonThe glitz of casino culture brilliantly illuminates a play about money lent, borrowed, stolen and investedRupert Goold's revelatory production of this problematic play abruptl…
Three years on from its unveiling at Stratford, Rupert Goold transfers to the Almeida his flashy, egregious and unflaggingly provocative Las Vegas take on this most problematic of Shakespear…
Rupert Goold's zanily high-concept Merchant of Venice has too many baubles, says Dominic Cavendish
Almeida Theatre, London: One of the presumably unintended consequences of the Royal Shakespeare Company no longer having a permanent London home has been that its productions are nowadays on…
All that glisters is not gold in the casino and television game-show world of Rupert Goold's American Shakespeare. Nor are all the accents, though working on them only seems to have made a s…
THE MERCHANT OF VEGAS RIDES AGAINÂ Three years ago Rupert Goold reimagined Venice for the RSC, taking 'casino capitalism' literally, setting it amid decadent gilt arches and roulet…
Ian McDiarmid doesn't hang about: he's straight in before I can even open my notebook. "The alleged anti-Semitism of the play, well of course it's not anti-Semitic, we wouldn't be doing it i…
Rupert Goold transfers his RSC production to the Almeida Theatre
Bob Carton revives his original 1989 production of Return to the Forbidden Planet commemorating 25th anniversary in 2015 and the cast of The Merchant of Venice is announced
London's Almeida Theatre has announced plans for the winter and spring season that will include a belated London showing for artistic director Rupert Goold's 2011 RSC production of T…
Ian McDiarmid is to star in a revival of Rupert Goold's Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merchant of Venice at the Almeida Theatre later this year, as part of the venue's winter/s…
Former Henry IV costars Antony Sher and Alex Hassell will reunite next summer in Arthur Miller's classic drama.