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

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

Arbus has given us a Merchant of Venice for the age, updated to the present day with plenty of mobile phone coverage on the ...

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

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill takes issue with President Donald Trump's comment that a religious service ...

The quality of mercy is not strained…it is twice blest. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” — Portia in ...

“The quality of mercy is not strain'd,” says the character Portia, in William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” “It ...

FROM the moment it was written (in the very late-16th century), Shakespeare’s play The Merchant Of Venice has been a moral conundrum. In the drama, the Jewish moneylender, Shylock – who has suffered a ...

THE women in my family were as tough as nails,” says Tracy-Ann Oberman, who, as a formidable actor on stage and screen, is quite a tough ...

The Merchant of Venice is a complicated play. Apart from its interweaving storylines, its genre defies classification: in its first quarto of 1600, the play is described as an “excellent history” and ...

Venice is famously a minefield of overpriced, tourist-trap restaurants offering depressingly mediocre food. Happily, for those in the know there are also some wonderful authentic local finds, and ...

President Trump’s demand for an apology from someone pleading for mercy not only contradicts core Christian teachings but it ...