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 ...
The choice of location (not Venice) and date for the update is crucial here – the eruption of violence in the East End occasioned by the rise of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Oswald ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A cartoon in a New Yorker magazine issue of the late 1930s showed Adolf Hitler pinning a Nazi medal on William Shakespeare for his perceived anti-Semitic slant in his play “The Merchant of Venice.” In ...
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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 ...