Articles about The Merchant of Venice
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Portia: hero or villain?
Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
Thompson will play Shylock in a new production from director Arin Arbus and Theatre for a New Audience.
The intensity of studio theatre only fitful in Bill Alexander's updated adaptation
What's in an article? Director Bill Alexander has titled his new production A Merchant of Venice, leaving u…
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 pla…
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'…
Actor behind video familiar to audiences of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Kentucky Shakespeare, StageOne Family Theatre
Pittsburgh Public Theater presents an online adaptation that highlights Shylock's connection to family in "Merchant of Venice."
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 spec…
For a production last year in Calgary, a gender switch illuminated the Shakespeare play's conflicts in fresh and troubling ways.
By Douglas Mayo
Tracy Ann Oberman is to play Shylock in Brigid Larmour's new production of The Merchant Of Venice Tour. Book tickets now.
This post The Merchant Of Venice Tour starring Tracy…
The moneylender with a dark agenda gets an intriguing spin in the engaging that runs through Saturday.
Also featured in this year's iteration of the annual event were Finn Wittrock, Charlaine Woodard, Lily Rabe, and Hamish Linklater.
1938 Italy provides the fascist framework for this Invictus staging.
With anti-Semitism on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, it might make perfect sense to revisi…
Legendary actor Al Pacino joined fellow Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush for Simply Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice.
The Broadway alums will take part in the reading, which also features Lily Rabe, Geoffrey Rush, and Hamish Linklater.
HATE CRIMES ROCK A SUBVERSIVE COMEDY This show can never be nice: Along with The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy built squarely on misogyny, The Merchant of Venice, a tragicomedy festeri…
This very well presented version of The Merchant of Venice is excellently executed, proving to modern audiences that Shakespeare doesn't have to be complicated in order to understand it.
Gold lame curtains, hoodies and hi-vis - we wouldn't naturally associate them with Shakespeare, but this is the world of the new production of The Merchant of Venice, currently playing at Dr…
Have a peek at what a modern take on Shakespeare's drama of vengeance, commodities, appearance and reality with rehearsal images from the new production of The Merchant of Venice directed by…
Shakespeare's great drama of mercy and manipulation, The Merchant of Venice, is to receive a striking new revival by theatre companies Poetic Justice Productions and Wolf Sister Productions …
This is the first time in its 29-year history that Stafford Borough Council's annual Shakespeare festival has featured The Merchant of Venice.
On this day in 2010, Al Pacino returned to Broadway as the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice,
It's quite a moment to be mounting a production of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice,' but Delaware Shakespeare did " and took it on the road. Gail Obenreder reviews.
