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Home » The Merchant of Venice

Tag: The Merchant of Venice

Posted inArts & Culture

The Merchant of Venice remains an ugly play for ugly times

by Kerry Reid October 30, 2019August 18, 2021

1938 Italy provides the fascist framework for this Invictus staging.

Posted inArts & Culture

Is The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? You bet!

by Tony Adler August 11, 2016August 18, 2021

The Globe Theatre and actor Jonathan Pryce deal with the anti-Semitism of The Merchant of Venice.

Posted inBlogs

Porchlight casting raises questions on the nature of ‘authentic’ theater

by Michael Miner August 3, 2016August 18, 2021

The Chicago theater community debates casting for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights.

"I don't even let my long-term boyfriend go down on me because I'm afraid he'll think it’s gross and ugly."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Learning to love your long labia

by Dan Savage December 4, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan Savage advises women respectively appalled by long labia, into butts but not buttholes, and less than thrilled by a boyfriend’s dream of golden showers.

Posted inBlogs

The Supreme Court and the mezuzah

by Michael Miner May 13, 2009August 19, 2021

The case of the forbidden mezuzah shows the mind of appellate judge Diane Wood, a possible Supreme Court nominee, at work.

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