https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/2163 Tue, 02 Jan 1990 01:17:31 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=2163 Peter Hall's "Merchant of Venice" on Broadway The New Yorker, January 1, 1990 If this view of Shylock doesn’t lead anywhere in particular, the production is no less rife with instances of what makes Hall great as a director of Shakespeare. He is a master at bringing subtext to life onstage—finding it out or creating it where none exists. Continue reading]]>