It eventually inspired me to take up my current role, as Shylock in a version of Shakespeare’s problem comedy The Merchant of Venice. I’m the first British woman to play the role – Shylock is ...

Playwrights Lauren M. Gunderson and Sarah Mantell are reimagining supporting characters from “Hamlet” and “The Merchant of ...

Season 2 introduced a new cast (save for Coolidge, who reprised her role as Tanya) and a new location — the White Lotus in ...

Two characters both named Antonio in two different Shakespeare plays - the Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night - are often ...

Two characters both named Antonio in two different Shakespeare plays - the Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night - are often considered to be gay. Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing is also suspected. A ...

Merchant Antonio (Jesse Nerenberg) lends money to his friend Bassanio (Cameron Laurie) so the latter can travel to Belmont to ...

Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point will showcase all of William Shakespeare's 37 plays – in just 95 minutes – in “The Complete ...

One of the more interesting features of the current meta is that characters of a lesser name are rising to the top of the tree. That said, anybody who has read any appearances by Squirrel Girl in ...

All new photos have been released of the cast of John Proctor is the Villain, a new play by Kimberly Belflower, with ...

Yet playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice was never on her radar – growing up ... Playing Shylock as a woman, she insists, isn’t about softening the character – “I didn't want to make her a victim ...