Mahood again ( The Merchant of Venice (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) ), describing Shakespeare’s and Shylock’s use of the gospels in the play (p. 198-9). “On Shylock’s first meeting with Bassanio, ...
The disappointing new musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, adapted from the 1988 movie about two con men in the South of The disappointing new musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, adapted from the 1988 movie ...
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 ...
“Playing Shylock,” opening in Brooklyn, imagines the cancellation of Shakespeare’s controversial play about the humiliation of a Jewish moneylender. When Saul Rubinek walks on stage in “Playing ...