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The Merchant of Venice

Theater Commentary: A Memorable “Merchant of Venice” — Squeezing Blood Out of a Rubber Chicken

This was an enormously exciting production of Merchant of Venice, a reminder that theater can be (in fact, must be!) nervy.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Igor Golyak, The Merchant of Venice

Theater Review: At Shakespeare & Company — Tina Packer’s Masterful “Merchant of Venice”

Shakespeare & Company’s staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jonathan Epstein, Shakespeare & Company, The Merchant of Venice, Tina Packer

Book Review: “Shylock Is My Name” — And the Problem Remains

Despite this, he is vexed by how the play draws out the anti-Semitism of English audiences

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Hogarth Shakespeare, Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Wilson, Shylock, Shylock is My Name, Stephen Greenblatt, The Merchant of Venice, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: “The Merchant of Venus” — Shakespeare, Politically Corrected

This production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice” tries to have it both ways: a show about intolerance, bigotry, and hatred is set in a ‘politically correct’ past.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Merchant of Venus, The Merchant of Venice, William-Shakespeare, Zero Point Theater

Theater Interview with David Sokol, Lyricist who made “Shylock Sing The Blues”

“As an artist, you probably know when a project pulls at you, sometimes kicking and screaming. Shylock definitely has me by the back of the neck.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Theater Tagged: Bread & Puppet Theatre, David Sokol, Shylock Sings the Blues, The Merchant of Venice

Music Review: Shylock Sings the Blues

This daring musical version of “The Merchant of Venice” provides a fascinating re-imagining of a classic play that explores many of the themes and tropes of the original more deeply than many modern productions do.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Music, Theater Tagged: David Sokol, Dennis Willmott, Shylock Sings the Blues, The Merchant of Venice, The Venetians, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2011

An exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Opera, Theater Tagged: American Repertory Theater, ArtsEmerson, Bear Patrol, Book of Days, Car Talk: The Musical, Click and Clack, Come and Go, Danny Boyle, Darko Tresnjak, Death and the Powers:The Robots' Opera, Diane Paulus, Educating Rita, Elevator Repair Service, F. Murray Abraham, Fragmens, Frankenstein, Howard Benson, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John J. King, Karole-Armitage, Lanford Wilson, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Modern Theatre, National Theatre Live, Neil-Labute, Neither, Nick Dear, NPR, NT Live, Opera, Paul, Peter Brook, Poetry, Ray and Tom Magliozzi, Reasons to Be Pretty, Robert Pinsky, Rockaby, Rough for Theatre I, samuel-beckett, Seth Rozin, Shylock, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Rimers of Eldritch, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Theatre for a New Audience, Tod Machover, Two Jews Walk Into a War .., Vaquero Playground, Wesley Savick, Weylin Symes, William-Shakespeare, Willy Russell

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