The Rude Mechanicals production of The Merchant of Venice, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is an engrossing exploration of Shakespeare's most controversial characters and the (s…
Internationally renowned post-modern theater artist Karin Coonrod says she knows "there's no ghetto in this play. It's something people rush to tell me, that I know already." Yet Coonrod, in…
Actors being completely inebriated is probably not what you expect when you go to see a Shakespeare play. However, Shitfaced Shakespeare's production of The Merchant of Venice is entirely ju…
Shakespearean silliness continues to entertain, as drunkenness diverts Shylock's scheming in Shit-faced Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London with two new shows for 2018: The Merchant of Venice and
The multi sell-out fringe phenomenon is back in London for 2018 with two new shows kicking off with The Merchant of Venice 18th April - 2nd June. Critically lauded and occasionally lambasted…
Sydney Opera House presents Bell Shakespeare's new production of "The Merchant of Venice," directed by Anne-Louise Sarks. Jessica Tovey confesses to being a theater nerd and a fan of Sh…
Karin Coonrod's inventive production of Shakespeare's notorious comedy has five actors playing the moneylender. It sounds gimmicky but it works.
By HowlRound TV. The Office of Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University hosts a Roundtable Discussion about The Merchant of Venice, livestreaming on the global, commons-ba…
Keith Warner's production adds visual brilliance to AndrÄ— Tchaikovsky's gritty, hard-working music
Exactly why composer Andre Tchaikowsky " gay, Jewish and depressive " chose The Merchant of Venice, with its heavy-handed anti-Semitism, as the
In her first production with Bell Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Anne-Louise Sarks will present a new, contemporary production of the Shakespeare classic, The Merchant Of Venice at …
Presented by Welsh National Opera, the masterpiece of admired composer André Tchaikowsky's entitled "The Merchant of Venice" will be staged at the Royal Opera House, London running from Jul…
Regional " Madison, NJ: Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. Ended June 4, 2017. Comedy. Author: William Shakespeare. Director: Robert Cuccioli. Critic: Simon Saltzman (May 2017). ***1/2 Frien…
This "Merchant" kicks off a summer of New Jersey theater in fine style.
Shakespeare and Director Glenn Havlan Pull No Punches  by Kim Waldron Theater of Others' "Merchant of Venice" refuses to downplay the bigotry of Shakespeare's most appealing and sympathet…
Considering the numerous versions of The Merchant of Venice I have seen in the last several years, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a rendition by DC’s Commedia dell’Arte …
William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" follows Antonio a merchant and his friend Bassanio who is in love with Portia. Bassanio needs money to go to Belmont and win Portia's hand so h…
Audiences can usually expect something distinct, and full of chutzpah, from the folk at DC's scrappy Faction of Fools theater troupe with its Comedia dell'Arte mission. The recipient of t…
Why now? Why Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in 2016? Because money still trumps love. Because racism and anti-Semitism flourish. And because the quality of mercy is indeed strained "…
Sometimes romantic, occasionally funny, and always unsettling, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice makes audiences squirm. The play mirrors not only the historic anti-Semitism of the late…
Idiomatic phrases ("demand a pound of flesh") and famous monologues ("the quality of mercy") aside, "The Merchant of Venice" has given the language one of its more sinister nouns: Shylock. T…
One might say that Nicolas Stemann doesn't so much stage The Merchant of Venice as interrogate the play " or the very possibility of staging it now. That would only capture part of what this…
WNO tours the 'other' Tchaikowsky's previously unseen Shakespeare opera
Three years ago, theater artist Aaron Posner had a postmodern field day updating Chekhov in his frisky comedy with the unprintable title that we've taken to politely calling "Stupid … Bird…