DARK, STARK AND DANGEROUS: Â A MERCHANT FOR TODAY What an odd, stark, angry, intelligent Merchant this is! Wholly unlike the last RSC production, Rupert Goold's spectacular Merchant-of-Veg…
Who says Broadway theatergoers don't care about Shakespeare? When Al Pacino is playing Shylock, they're plenty interested. The superstar's limited engagement in The Merchant of Venice barrel…
<p>Tickets are now on sale for <a href="http://www.broadway.com/shows/merchant-venice/"><i>The Merchant of Venice</i></a>, starring Oscar and two-time Tony winn…
Production: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, directed by Daniel Sullivan, starring Al Pacino.
The headlines belong to Al Pacino's harrowing yet unusually restrained Shylock, and rightly so. But the other news on the Central Park rialto is that "The Merchant of Venice," arguably the m…
Al Pacino's mesmerizing star turn as Shylock dominates this darkly tinged production of Shakespeare's problematic play.
Helmer Daniel Sullivan handles show's relationships with admirable subtlety making the play shine.
In the second major production of William Shakespeare's classic this season, F. Murray Abraham gives us a subtler Shylock than Al Pacino's.
The star attraction is the great Al Pacino, alongside a constellation of smaller stars. All of this power, however, has not tempted Daniel Sullivan to craft a production that detonates the p…
As played by Al Pacino in Dan Sullivan's excellent production at Shakespeare in the Park, Shylock comes off not as a villain, but as both a wildly theatrical and complex tragic figure reacti…
The well-reviewed Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Academy Award winner Al Pacino, could possibly cross the Atlantic for a London run, according to the Daily Mail.
Patrick Stewart, recently seen on Broadway in A Life in the Theatre, will likely star in the Royal Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of The Merchant of Venice, according to London's …
The critically praised Public Theater production of The Merchant of Venice will extend its Broadway run for an additional three weeks of performances at the Broadhurst Theatre into February …
Strong performances from Al Pacino and Lily Rabe as Shylock and Portia dominate director Daniel Sullivan's uneven production of Shakespeare's problematic "comedy."
His chief misjudgment here is hiring actors who are usually masters of detailed shading, and then not letting them shade.
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…
Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context By A. O. SCOTT
Shakespeare's most problematic play — at least with respect to modern sensitivities — receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
Following a celebrated summer run at Shakespeare in the Park, the Public Theater’s staging of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino as Shylock, transfers to Broadway for a limited…