Articles about The Merchant of Venice
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By Josh Platt. Josh Platt on The Merchant of Venice directed by Tina Packer in Lenox, Massachusetts.
 by JK Clarke It seems in recent years that even the most progressive theater groups are reluctant to produce what have come to be called Shakespeare's "proble…
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-AvonWhat to do with this endlessly problematic play? Directors such as Peter Zadek and David Thacker set it in the stock exchange. But Rupert Goold, a…
Not one of the playwright's most convincing manuscripts, An American Daughter is marred by the stage time given over to Judith
Nonetheless, when a Shylock is portrayed with the finesse that Epstein displays, the quality of mercy for everything else
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THE GLOBE’SÂ STUNNING PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTSÂ SHAKESPEARE'S PLEA FOR DIGNITYÂ AS MUCH AS MERCY A decade ago a Chicago critic notoriously concluded his review of The Merchant of Ve…
Given that we're just collections of atoms, our very consciousness designed mostly for reproductive advantage, our self-generated racial divisions, religious prejudices and petty quests for …
The Kennedy Center is an institution, inspiring awe from the moment you walk in the door. You get to your seat and the stage is an Elizabethan hall, with light filtering through the latticew…
Actor Jonathan Pryce is playing the Jewish moneylender in a new touring production of The Merchant of Venice that reimagines Shakespeare's supposedly-comic villain as a tragic and universal …
W.H. Auden once said ,"Shylock is the outsider because he is the only serious person in the play."Â Jonathan Pryce's Shylock is a deeply serious person, and Pryce's magnificent portrayal o…
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart." " William Shakespeare, The Merc…
The appropriately psychologically penetrating and vivid production of The Merchant of Venice (now playing at The Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater) embraces all the conundrums of William S…
Shakespeare & Company's staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.
Things would have gone very differently for Shylock if he'd been on the stand today.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jonathan Pryce is no stranger to William Shakespeare, but one play he has refused to do is "The Merchant of Venice" - until now....
Jonathan Pryce is no stranger to William Shakespeare, but one play he has refused to do is "The Merchant of Venice" " until now.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtspresentsShakespeare's Globe's critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE in five performances tonight,July 27, …
by Jerry Beal Within the customary genres of comedy, tragedy, and history that are used to describe William Shakespeare's plays, there is a sub-set into which some are a…
London's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic direction of Emma Rice, will light up US stages and screens this summer and fall, with a three-city limited engagement o…
The acclaimed production from London's Globe Theatre kicked off its U.S. engagements at Lincoln Center Festival.
Jonathan Pryce makes a strong case for Shylock’s infamous demand for a pound of flesh in Shakespeare’s Globe‘s gorgeously stylized production of “The Merchant of Veni…
he Old Globe's Merchant of Venice-- our 3rd encounter with the Bard's schizophrenic play
At the Lincoln Center Festival, Jonathan Pryce stars as Shylock in a production filled with scorn, violence and anti-Semitism.
