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 ...

John Douglas Thompson and Maurice Jones in Theatre for a New Audience's "The Merchant of Venice." (Courtesy Henry Grossman) Critics, actors and playwrights have recently called into question whether ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are getting a foothold in London’s East End. Shylock, here a single parent, requests a pound of flesh from Antonio, part of Mosley’s aficionados, in order to clear his ...

This Shylock wears Groucho glasses. Stalking the stage in a rehearsal for director Igor Golyak’s Merchant of Venice, Richard Topol plays it to the hilt. He tabulates his interest rate on the back of ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Dustin Hoffman was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Geraldine James was nominated but ...

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 ...

Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday. By Laura Collins-Hughes More than 25 years later, ...

In her “brilliant and uncompromising” staging of The Merchant of Venice, Abigail Graham never shies away from what this play is really about, said Oliver Ainley on What’s on Stage. Namely: “a group of ...

The actor John Douglas Thompson, now legendary among theatre audiences for his interpretations of classical material, is his own philharmonic of well-tuned instruments. His voice, at a rumble or a ...