Shakespeare’s Globe

The Merchant of Venice

July 20–24

Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor

“Jonathan Pryce is electrifyingly good.”

—Time Out (U.K.)

“Exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced, well-dressed . . . The Globe at its best”

—Mail on Sunday (U.K.)

By William Shakespeare

North American premiere production

Director Jonathan Munby

Designer Mike Britton

Composer Jules Maxwell

Choreographer Lucy Hind

With Jonathan Pryce and Stefan Adegbola, Christopher Logan, Brian Martin, Rachel Pickup, Phoebe Pryce

Originally produced by Dominic Dromgoole

After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.).

The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast.

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The 2016 Lincoln Center Festival presentation of The Merchant of Venice is made possible in part by generous support from The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation

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Add to Calendar 20-07-2016 07:30:00 pm 20-07-2016 10:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 21-07-2016 07:30:00 pm 21-07-2016 10:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 22-07-2016 07:30:00 pm 22-07-2016 10:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 23-07-2016 01:30:00 pm 23-07-2016 04:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 23-07-2016 07:30:00 pm 23-07-2016 10:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 24-07-2016 01:30:00 pm 24-07-2016 04:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
Add to Calendar 24-07-2016 07:30:00 pm 24-07-2016 10:30:00 pm 15 The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center Festival After an exceptional double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III that played to sold-out houses on Broadway in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to New York this summer for its Lincoln Center debut. Jonathan Pryce delivers a “finely textured” Shylock (Financial Times) in this “exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-paced revival” (Mail on Sunday, U.K.). The Merchant of Venice has proved to be one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to transpose to modern tastes. Bawdy humor and romantic hijinks coexist with difficult questions of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy. Director Jonathan Munby approaches these challenges with nuance, intelligence, and wit in a glistening production where “the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole” (Telegraph, U.K.). In the role of Shylock—as famous for his merciless insistence that a debt be repaid with “a pound of flesh” as for his trenchant speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—Pryce exacts a highly sympathetic portrayal of the Jewish moneylender, at once a vengeful tyrant and a piteous, persecuted outcast. Featured Articles: Stench and Abomination It Shall Seem to Signify: Audio Description and The Merchant of Venice Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th floor Lincoln Center Presents Lincoln Center Festival
  • This performance is approximately two hours and 45 minutes long with one intermission.
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