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 most ...

As long as we’re on the subject, I want to take a look at a famous speech from Merchant of Venice, the speech where Shylock justifies, to two of his tormentors, his thirst for vengeance. With whom is ...

Technically, "The Merchant of Venice" is categorized as one of Shakespeare's comedies, in that it has several pairs of scheming lovers, women pulling off some rather unlikely gender masquerades and a ...

In his program notes for Janus Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” director Sean Hargadon recounts Susan P. Anderson’s audition for the role of Shylock, the Jewish ...

John Douglas Thompson and Maurice Jones in Theatre for a New Audience's "The Merchant of Venice." (Courtesy Henry Grossman) Critics, actors and playwrights have recently called into question whether ...

Rafael de Acha’s production of The Merchant of Venice is not perfect, but it also cannot be dismissed. It boasts gripping and often extraordinary performances by Steve Gladstone, Annemaria Rajala, ...

Director Abigail Graham is a Jew herself and, from the very start, that word, that identity, lies at the heart of the play. In modern dress, yobs brimming with entitlement scream the word every time ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

This Shylock wears Groucho glasses. Stalking the stage in a rehearsal for director Igor Golyak’s Merchant of Venice, Richard Topol plays it to the hilt. He tabulates his interest rate on the back of ...

On a recent production of The Merchant of Venice. All these dramas introduce us into highly artificial societies, whose civilization is ripe unto rottenness. Amidst such media abnormal conditions of ...

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present the Starvox Entertainment production Playing Shylock by Mark Leiren-Young, ...

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