Presenter: Portia, one of theatre’s strongest heroines ... She’s a menace to the men of Venice, winning with her wits and not with her… good looks. She’s bored of her situation and she ...

Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.

Portia enters with Bassanio and a few others. Before Portia's father passed away, he created a challenge for any potential suitor for Portia's hand in mariage. A suitor must pick one of three ...

LENOX — When Shakespeare & Company last put on "The Merchant of Venice" in a production at the Mount in 1998 ... And women don't have it easy: Portia, played by Tamara Hickey, is clever enough to ...

One does not need to be familiar with “The Merchant of Venice” to enjoy this new musical adaptation. Here is the basic synopsis: Bassanio wants to woo the rich heiress Portia, but he is flat broke and ...

it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven," Portia famously tells Shylock, who is demanding a pound of flesh from her friend Antonio in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. "It is twice ...

Portia arrives to Antonio's trial disguised as Balthazar, a lawyer. Portai has each party stand forth and questions them. Having asked if Antonio acknowledges the contract he made with Shylock and ...

Portia is a rich heiress whose dead father left ... Jewish moneylender Shylock using the credit of a good friend, the merchant Antonio. When Antonio ends up unable to repay the debt, Shylock ...

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will ...