When you think of Venice, water and gondolas are probably the first things to come to mind. And yes, this is a city that was built on water and the gondolas do still transport tourists in particular ...

Theatre review of The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare) from Theatre for a New Audience at Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - reviewer: Donald C Stewart ...

Arin Arbus’s production of The Merchant of Venice is set in a bleak near future in which today’s broligarchs might well feel at home, writes Joyce McMillan ...

The Merchant of Venice was translated as Portia Svayamvaram in 1888, and as Venisile Vyapari in 1902. The Taming of the Shrew was translated and adapted as Kalahinidamanakam by Kandathil Varghese ...

The Off-Broadway production of "The Merchant of Venice" opened Off-Broadway on November 25th at the Classic Stage Company.

In 1971, legendary British actress Judi Dench played Portia in a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” In her book about the playwright published this spring, Dench is candid ...

48. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet. 49.

Venice is commemorating famous traveller and merchant Marco Polo, 700 years after his death. An exhibition in the Doge’s Palace has 300 artefacts, including books, maps and manuscripts.

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.

Director Brigid Larmour brings a fresh urgency to The Merchant of Venice in this production by Watford Palace Theatre at HOME Manchester. Larmour relocates Shakespeare’s tale of vengeance and ...