Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Merchant of Venice is traditionally categorized as a comedy, but the ...

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 ...

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 ...

F. Murray Abraham untangles the controversies surrounding “The Merchant of Venice,” addressing the ubiquitous anti-Semitism that characterized Europe in Shakespeare’s time. Shakespeare Uncovered is ...

To her credit, director Arin Arbus lets us see all the ugliest implications of “The Merchant of Venice” in the fascinating production she has staged for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. You can claim ...

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 ...

John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus’s caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play. By Alexis Soloski More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at ...

There are always people ready to pluck out what offends them. Consider Steven Frank, a lawyer whose attack on The Merchant of Venice has been bouncing around the Internet, in various drafts, for a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Queerbaiting” is a term that was largely popularized in the early 2000s and continues to be used ...

Condensed into just over two hours, it’s a thoughtful take on Shakespeare’s most problematic of plays, with a blinding central performance from Patsy Ferran as Portia. The character of Shylock (played ...

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 ...