According to a 1993 New York Times article by the theater critic John Gross, the Nazis staged “The Merchant of Venice” 20 times in 1933, and a subsequent 30 times between 1934 and 1939.

Actors who have played Shylock and local artists and arts administrators respond to the question of whether non-Jews can play the Shakespearean character.

We should keep in mind that in the first century and a half of its history, “The Merchant of Venice” was hardly ever produced, and it virtually disappeared from the stage. Let’s give it a ...

On a recent weekend, I eagerly set out to see two new productions that prominently center Blackness: the director Arin Arbus’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and ...

Director Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice is a gift. Since the Holocaust, to present this brilliant, challenging Shakespeare play about Jew-hating Christians and hateful Jewish ...

The Merchant of Venice, of course, appears on many high school curricula. So there is one group that will doubtless come to Stratford to see this production -- student audiences. They have no ...

What is “The Merchant of Venice” selling? Is it anti-Semitism or a dramatic commentary on the anti-Semitism of William Shakespeare’s time? With a view ...

At Lincoln Center Festival, the Globe transformed "Merchant" into a play that was about anti-Semitism, not anti-Semitic itself.