Following a second sold out West End run, the critically acclaimed production arrives at Leeds Playhouse from 18-22 February ...

Theatre For A New Audience is an American group based in New York City, and their 2022 production of The Merchant of Venice, which here marks the company’s Edinburgh debut, bristles with new word ...

The heiress Portia becomes “a beautiful glacial ... Yet playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice was never on her radar – growing up, she says, “the play always fascinated and repulsed ...

As well as chalking up quite a resume and reducing admirers to tears playing Dexter Mayhew in Netflix's One Day, Leo Woodall ...

“The quality of mercy is not strain'd,” says the character Portia, in William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” “It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath.” ...

Taking inspiration from Miley Cyrus’ hit song, the play follows an estate agent Natalie Jackson as she reflects on ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill takes issue with President Donald Trump's comment that a religious service was "not very exciting." ...

among them the role of Portia opposite Olivier’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1973); a spinster dragged into a romantic charade with Alec McCowen in A Dedicated Man; as Meg in Pinter’s ...

Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Rosa in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "In many of these, she acted alongside Laurence Olivier, her partner in art and ...

The Olivier Award-winning actress on making the jump from the West End to primetime TV in BBC One’s new period drama, Miss ...

Quite the opposite. Let William Shakespeare have the last word, from Portia’s speech in “The Merchant of Venice”: "The quality of mercy is not strained/ It droppeth as the gentle rain from ...