Sunday, October 18, 2026
A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories“William Shakespeare was a black woman.” In 1985, Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Announcing our 2027 season!
We will be celebrating our 75th season with a sweeping 13-production playbill that brings together Shakespeare, major musicals, new Canadian work, family theatr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2026
Celebrating the arrival of spring and the newest additions to the cast of HADESTOWN, as the critically acclaimed production heads into its third year at the Lyric Theatre, London.
Rachel A…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2026
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen veteran Jane Lapotaire, who won Olivier and Tony Awards for portraying French singer Édith Piaf in the play Piaf, passed away on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
Age: 24
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Current role: Noah Pacht stars as Ponyboy in The Outsiders on Broadway beginning March 17, 2026.
Previous roles: Pacht made his Broadway debut last sea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
The cast has been revealed for Brigadoon at Pasadena Playhouse! The cast will feature Tony Award and six time Emmy Award Winner Tyne Daly as Widow Lundie (previously Mr. Lundie), Tony Award …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Stay gold! The Outsiders on Broadway will welcome a slew of new cast members to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre beginning March 17.
The cast will be led by Noah Pacht as Ponyboy Curtis; Caleb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Stay gold! The Outsiders on Broadway will welcome a slew of new cast members to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre beginning March 17.
The cast will be led by Noah Pacht as Ponyboy Curtis; Caleb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2026
The Drama League has revealed the cast members for DirectorFest 2026, a festival focusing on the art of Contemporary Stage directing by an exciting new generation of talent, featuring two st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
"Playing Shylock" at the Segal Centre
Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026
A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production
By Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
Get Tickets: h…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:53AM[SHARE]"Playing Shylock" at the Segal Centre
Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026
A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production
By Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
Get Tickets: h…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Playing Shylock
Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026 - Segal Centre for Performing Arts
A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production
By Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
Playing Shylock
Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026
A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production
By Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
Get Tickets: https://purchase.segal…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:24AM[SHARE]Playing Shylock
Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026
A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production
By Mark Leiren-Young
Starring Saul Rubinek
Get Tickets: https://purchase.segal…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
December 4, 2025: In 1905, Jacob Adler, a giant of Manhattan's Yiddish theater, spoke these (or similar) words from the stage of Teller's Broadway Theatre in Brooklyn's W…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
WHO GETS TO TELL THE STORY?
By Alix Cohen
November 12, 2025 Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a ver…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
By Alix Cohen Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a version of himself playing Shylock, refuses to go ge…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
Mark Leiren-Young's timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM[SHARE]At the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Saul Rubinek steps into the role he's long dreamed of playing"Shylock, the complex and controversial Jewish moneylender of Shakespeare's The Merchant of V…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:03AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
Saul Rubinek is making a long-anticipated return to the stage in the New York premiere of Playing Shylock at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, home of Theatre for a New Audience.
Playing Shylock …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Saul Rubinek long has wanted to play Shylock, a role that his father, a Yiddish actor and Holocaust survivor, never got a chance to play. But now that he has finally gotten to star in "The M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]★★★★☆ Saul Rubinek plays himself in Mark Leiren-Young's one-person play about a shut-down production of "The Merchant of Venice."
The post Playing Shylock: A Me…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM[SHARE]Saul Rubinek dazzles and delights during this clever and moving autobiographical solo show about a cancelled production of "The Merchant of Venice."
The post Playing Shylock appeared first o…
SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
A pensive Al Pacino, circa the 1970's, his most defined decade as an actor.April 25, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
I've written about him before, but there's always…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write "merchant of Vegas"…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghJohn Douglas Thompson is a commanding Shylock in a vision of an apparently benign city where tolerance buckles all too quickly
He likes a bit of a laugh, this Shylock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2025
Tracy-Ann Oberman talks about playing the first female Shylock (who she based on her great grandmother!) and the return to the West End of her acclaimed Shakespeare adaptation, The Merchant …
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:55AM[SHARE]Tracy-Ann Oberman talks about the return to the West End of her acclaimed Shakespeare adaptation, The Merchant of Venice 1936, and playing the first female Shylock.
The London Theatre Revie…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Artist Linda Fennimore's poster design for "Tru," starring Robert Morse (1989).December 25, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
It's odd that I hold one Christmas memory…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is considered a 'problem' play with its ambiguous tone, shifting from humor to dark elements in the person of one of the central characters, the Jewish…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2024
Theater Pizzazz's Meredith Heyman in interview with Alexandra Silber, currently playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice.
The post Video " Backstage Access with Meredith Heyman: "The Merchan…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2024
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE written by William Shakespeare adapted & directed by Igor Golyak for Arlekin Theatre Company at the Classic Stage Company Theatre Reviewed by David Spencer I suppo…
SOURCE: AisleSay at 08:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2024
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Merchant of Venice @ Classic Stage Company, SHIT. MEET. FAN. @ MCC Theater, Room 1214 @ 59e59, Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now @…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2024
There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare's sonnets ("My Mistress' eyes are nothing like t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Shakespeare is so revered today because his work is so universal, transcending eras as it speaks of the human condition. And we absolutely need to be spoken to. This adaptation is both enter…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:17PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2024
The Merchant of Venice, directed and adapted by Igor Golyak (Our Class; The Orchard), opens tonight, Monday, November 25 for a limited engagement at The Lynn F. Angelson Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2024
Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant Of Venice 1936, direct from the RSC. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (Eastenders, Doctor Who) as Shylock, Shakespeare's…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:21AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
Video by Magda Katz… Here's a sneak peek of the cast and performance of the "The Merchant of Venice", currently playing at the Arlekin Players Theater, NYC. https://www.merchantofvenicepla…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:26PM[SHARE] 
