Every year brings new productions of Shakespeare’s controversial play “The Merchant of Venice.” This week, it visits the Kennedy Center. Yet no matter how it is packaged, as the preeminent ...

Pretty much every lawyer in the English-speaking world has heard of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Merchant is one of Shakespeare's "problem plays." For a comedy, it isn't very funny ...

By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic The bottom line is that getting the tone right with Merchant is a tricky balancing act to pull off for a company whose mission statement is effectively ...

He refuses to soft-pedal the character’s abrasiveness, adopting a weary self-righteousness as he defends his merciless decision to extract a pound of flesh from the merchant Antonio (Byron ...

"The Merchant of Venice" is one of Shakespeare's most renowned and controversial plays, yet it hasn't been performed in San Francisco in decades, according to Custom Made Theatre's artistic ...

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 ...

"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman. Torn between his desire to give ...

The Merchant of Venice is produced by Arlekin Players Theatre & MART Foundation in association with Jadow Productions. T.R. Knight (Grey's Anatomy, Parade, Noises Off, Tartuffe), will play ...

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a man called Antonio who struggles to pay back a loan. Themes in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice The Merchant ...

but I doubt that any of them has evoked slavery with greater resonance than John Douglas Thompson does in the penetrating new production of The Merchant of Venice copresented by Theatre for a New ...