Venice was an important trading centre where merchants bought and sold all manner of goods from around the world. The characters Antonio (the merchant of the title), Bassanio, and Shylock ...

Stalking the stage in a rehearsal for director Igor Golyak’s Merchant of Venice, Richard Topol plays ... His intention in breaking character, Topol says, is to remind the crowd “that the ...

but I doubt that any of them has evoked slavery with greater resonance than John Douglas Thompson does in the penetrating new production of The Merchant of Venice copresented by Theatre for a New ...

“The Merchant ... characters, Jasmine Renee Ellis, fresh off “Lizzie” at Actor’s Express, and the very funny Alejandra Ruiz make an impact in a few scenes. This “Merchant of Venice ...

“All the characters behave so badly,” she wrote. “Nobody really redeems themselves.” Written more than 400 years ago, the portrayal of Jews in “The Merchant of Venice ...