A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally complicated times. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Merchant of Venice is traditionally categorized as a comedy, but the character ...

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“The Merchant of Venice” is one of William Shakespeare’s “problem comedies,” blending farcical proceedings with sobering content in a manner that challenges any director to find a way to make its ...

A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally complicated times. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The cast of 'The Merchant of Venice.' Photo Credit: Kirill Simakov The Off-Broadway production of “The Merchant of Venice” opened Off ...

If it sounds snide to say that helmer Daniel Sullivan’s “Merchant of Venice” is brilliant except that the director misunderstands Shylock, it shouldn’t. How often does the famous villain appear, ...

The Merchant of Venice (first published in 1600) boasts a problematic and sometimes controversial stage history. During the second world war, Hitler’s “Reichsdramaturg” Rainer Schlösser organised a ...

THIS is a very clever and passionate adaptation of the Merchant of Venice. It is one of the Bard's most complex of plays - ...

John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus’s caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play. By Alexis Soloski More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at ...