Stage Pick: The Merchant of Venice, CA
Yon dude and dudette.
Photo courtesy of City Theatre
City Theatre transposes Shakespeare’s classic The Merchant of Venice from Renaissance Italy to contemporary California… specifically the LA beachside community of Venice, with its circus-like Ocean Walk, colorful mosaics and graffiti. Veteran director Adrienne Sher is channeling the anti-Semitism evident in Shakespeare’s script into the present-day USA under Trump (remember that neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville?).
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