“[The play] is filled with so much vile, racist ugliness,” he said, adding that “a straight version of ‘Merchant of Venice’” would “border on the impossible” to pull off ...

The Off-Broadway production of "The Merchant of Venice" opened Off-Broadway on November 25th at the Classic Stage Company.

No, it's Arlekin Players Theatre's off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," now playing at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at Classic Stage Company. And like many DC movies, it ...

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 ...

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 characters in this play are grouped into those from Venice and those from Belmont ... The characters Antonio (the merchant of the title), Bassanio, and Shylock, the Jewish money lender ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Dustin Hoffman was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Geraldine James was nominated ...

Portia, in disguise, defends Antonio from Shylock's legal suit. Shylock loses and the play ends with him being forced to renounce his faith and his fortune.

simply ditch a play like ‘The Merchant of Venice’. While far less antisemitic than contemporary works like Marlowe’s ‘The Jew of Malta’ – by Elizabethan standards it was perhaps even m ...

This highly entertaining adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ukrainian-born, Jewish theater artist Igor Golyak, is a wild ride that takes a startling and tragic turn ...