In our contemporary atmosphere where great works of art are scrutinized for possible offense, it’s popular to suggest that Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” should no longer be performed because ...

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 First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism By Alexander Lee Basic Books, 432 pages, $34 When one thinks ...

Giving what promise to be the performances of this season, Lily Rabe, as Portia the heiress, and Al Pacino, as Shylock the usurer, invest the much-parsed trial scene of this fascinating, irksome work ...

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 ...

Pacino stars as Shylock opposite Lily Rabe as Portia in Daniel Sullivan's revival of the classic, which began Broadway previews Oct. 19, 2010, after a run as part of Shakespeare in the Park's ...

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 ...

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, and the ...

In Shakespeare's classic comedy, Antonio is a young man who pledges a pound of his own flesh to a moneylender, Shylock (played by Oscar winner Al Pacino), so a friend can woo his lady-love in style.

Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in __*The Merchant of Venice 1936*__, direct from the RSC. Starring __Tracy-Ann Oberman__ (*Eastenders, Doctor Who*) as Shylock, Shakespeare ...