(JNS) A new production of “The Merchant of Venice,” which is set to open at the Classic Stage Company in Manhattan on Nov. 25, aims to connect the Jew-hatred that Shakespeare famously depicts in the ...

The Merchant of Venice is a play written by William Shakespeare. The date the play was written in unknown, but the play was mentioned in 1598 in Francis Mere's Wit's Treasury. A date of 1596-1597 is ...

“[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 ...

Richard Topol as Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice,” set to open in New York City on Nov. 25, 2024. Photo by Kirill Simakov. Actors in the play told JNS that their interpretation of their ...

A new production of “The Merchant of Venice,” which is set to open at the Classic Stage Company in Manhattan on Nov. 25, aims to connect the Jew-hatred that Shakespeare famously depicts in the late ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

But that’s because Playing Shylock is about the mostly Ashkenazi Jews in Canada, not about the mostly Mizrachi Jews in Israel ...