The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s classic play on love, commerce, and bigotry, has been the subject of a great, enduring controversy...

David Serero is starring as Shylock from The Merchant of Venice Article by JULIAN VOLOJ Can we stage the Merchant of Venice? As last...

David Serero smiles when he describes his new role as Shylock in the musical Merchant of Venice, which premiered in New York last week. “There are many ways to play Shylock,” he says. “The last person to play Shylock in New York was Al Pacino, but all the biggest Jewish actors, like Jacob Adler, played Shylock as a villain. Shylock is the bad guy. Even today, in the finance world, when we call someone a ‘Shylock,’ we mean he’s a bad guy who will kill for money. “The way