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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice, Al Pacino

Pacino: Joan Marcus/ Public Theater

As Shylock, Shakespeare's villainous Jew, Al Pacino is both repellent and poignant in Daniel Sullivan's powerful production—first staged in Central Park, now on Broadway—which highlights with unsparing bluntness the poisonous anti-Semitism he faces.

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