In 1971, legendary British actress Judi Dench played Portia in a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” In her book about the playwright published this spring, Dench is candid and ...
2011 Tony Awards Best Costume Design of a Play Jess Goldstein 2011 Tony Awards Best Direction of a Play Daniel Sullivan 2011 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design of a Play Kenneth Posner 2011 Tony Awards ...
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 ...
The Off-Broadway production of “The Merchant of Venice” opened Off-Broadway on November 25th at the Classic Stage Company in Manhattan. The cast features Richard Topol, Alexandra Silber, Gus Birney, ...
The production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice now running at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, California (part of greater Los Angeles) is vibrant and refreshing. It revels in the sheer ...
In May 1943, at Vienna’s Burg theater, the Nazi party staged its most famous production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” It starred Werner Krauss, a man so anti-Semitic that he is said to ...
Although you wouldn’t know it from this newsletter, I don’t like consuming culture about anti-Semitism. This might sound surprising, given my chosen profession. But precisely because covering ...
Regarded as one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays, “The Merchant of Venice” has also been a painful thorn in Jewish sides, its antagonist Shylock epitomizing the stereotype of the miserly Jew ...
If "The Merchant of Venice" is one Shakespeare's better known plays lacking a film version, then Michael Radford's tony adaptation to some degree illustrates why. Polished production, prestige cast ...
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