Merchant of Venice

Protest At London's Globe Theater

AP | Posted 05.28.2012

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LONDON — British police say a man has been arrested after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a performance by the Israeli national theater com...

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Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater Return To Broadway

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

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NEW YORK -- Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater will star opposite Alan Rickman this fall in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play. Producers ...

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Back To Broadway: Lily Rabe And Hamish Linklater

hosted2.ap.org | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Alan Rickman, Merchant of Venice, Sam Gold, The Understudy, Al Pacino, Mauritius, Golden Theatre, Harry Potter, Theresa Rebeck, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Arts News

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater will star opposite Alan Rickman this fall in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play. Produce...

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A Pound Of Flesh: Extraordinary Literary Debts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: David Graeber, Debt, Crime and Punishment, Canterbury Tales, Literary Debt, Merchant of Venice, Charles Dickens, Faust, Shakespeare, History of Debt, Chaucer, Books News

Today marks the release of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In this red-bound tome, Graeber explains the concept of debt and c...

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Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 06.18.2011

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Marc Porter Zasada

If you hurry to the Broad Stage before April 24, you might just catch the best Merchant of your life -- The Merchant of Venice, that is, Shakespeare's tragi-comic masterpiece.

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Santa Monica's Broad Stage Offers The Merchant of Venice With an Academy Award-Winning Actor. (No, It's Not Pacino)

Jay Weston | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: F. Murray Abraham, Broad Stage, Al Pacino, Merchant of Venice, Al Pacino Shylock, Shylock, Merchant of Venice Reviews, Darko Tresnjak, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

With all of the attention which Pacino's portrayal of Shylock recently received in NYC, theatergoers are still talking about another production which played concurrently to extraordinary reviews.

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The Fall That Was

Cara Joy David | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Theater, Scottsboro Boys, Broadway, Driving Miss Daisy, Lombardi, Merchant of Venice, New York News
Cara Joy David

This fall I was puzzled by quite a few things on Broadway. I didn't foresee Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson tumbling so quickly. It had no stars, but neither did Spring Awakening.

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'Shylock' Al Pacino Stunningly Good In 'Merchant'

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Though he appears in only a handful of scenes, Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" is perhaps William Shakespeare's most thorny chara...

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Al Pacino's "Merchant of Venice" Broadway-Bound

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Delacorte Theater, Nyc Culture, Broadhurst Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park, Al Pacino, Merchant of Venice, NYC Arts, New York News

NEW YORK — Al Pacino and "The Merchant of Venice" will soon be on the move. The Public Theater announced Monday that following an eight-week ru...

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Shakespeare in the Park: Not Your Usual Romp on the Great Lawn

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Delacorte Theater, The Winter's Tale, Lily Rabe, Al Pacino, Merchant of Venice, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Merchant of Venice is always a bitter pill for us Jews, even when the production is as good as the one at the Delacorte Theater featuring a cast led b...

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Free Shakespeare In The Park Tickets For A Price

Posted 05.25.2011

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Got a hankering for some Shakespeare, but short on time? Well a group of crafty (and patient) entrepreneurs are willing to wait on the hours-long lin...

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