*THESE ARE BOTH SPECIAL STOP ACTION PERFORMANCES LED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KEATH HALL: Join us as we stop and discuss pivotal moments in the show as the performance is actively going on! Beat by beat ...

The Merchant of Venice opens the 21st summer season of free Shakespeare-In-The-Park at Thornden Park’s Amphitheatre on June 2. Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park’s “The Merchant of Venice” is directed ...

A new production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice—with the first black Shylock in New York in almost 200 years—completes its run at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn this weekend ...

Syracuse Shakespeare-In-The-Park today announced its 21st season of free outdoor Shakespeare performances. The season opens with an all-female version of “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Daniel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isabel Arraiza starred across Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto in “The Little Things.” Now, she stars in “The Merchant of Venice” at Shakespeare Theatre through April 24. Arraiza told WTOP ...

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 ...

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” Shylock's words may have been written in the 1590s, ...

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

Shakespeare probably never met a Jewish person. Three centuries before “The Merchant of Venice” was written, England became the first country in medieval Europe to expel its Jewish population. Abraham ...

To put it mildly, adopting The Merchant Of Venice for a modern audience presents more than the usual challenges in adapting Shakespeare. It's home to one of Shakespeare's most memorable villains, but ...