Dennis Trainor in the Actors' Shakespeare Project production of "The Merchant of Venice" (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Expect the unexpected. It’s a cliché, I know, but the Actors’ Shakespeare Project ...

Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are getting a foothold in London’s East End. Shylock, here a single parent, requests a pound of flesh from Antonio, part of Mosley’s aficionados, in order to clear his ...

Clothes do a lot of work in Arin Arbus’s new staging of “The Merchant of Venice.” Antonio (Alfredo Narciso), the play’s titular merchant, dresses like a tech founder just back from some problematic ...

"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman. Torn between his desire to give all ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Is this a DC movie? 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 ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the The Performance Company, The Lexington Group, BBC drama flick. The Merchant of Venice starring Henry Goodman, David Bamber, Peter de Jersey, Derbhle ...

Theater Critic Sean McMullen also reviews International City Theatre’s production of “Warsaw,” on show through May 17.

The actor John Douglas Thompson, now legendary among theatre audiences for his interpretations of classical material, is his own philharmonic of well-tuned instruments. His voice, at a rumble or a ...

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 ...