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Playing Shylock

First Preview: Oct 16, 2025
Opening Date: Oct 23, 2025
Closing Date: Dec 7, 2025
Playing Shylock
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Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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After a production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is cancelled mid-performance because of public outcries about antisemitism, the actor playing Shylock (Saul Rubinek, as a version of himself) asks how we are to share our common humanity when we are not able to share our stories with each other. The production, fresh off an extended successful run in Canada, delivers a candid and passionate appeal about identity, public discourse and the theatre.

Presented by Starvox Entertainment, Playing Shylock is not a production of Theatre for a New Audience.
Off BroadwayPlay - Drama

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Cast
  • Saul Rubinek
Written By
  • Mark Leiren-Young
Director
  • Martin Kinch

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    Assistive Listening Devices that transmit sound via headsets are available for all performances. For an Assistive Listening Device, please visit the box office before entering the mainstage theatre.

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    Gender diversity is welcome at Theatre for a New Audience. All are welcome to use the restroom that best fits their identity. In addition to men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor, there is a gender neutral single-stall private restroom on the mezzanine level (third floor).

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    Access for wheelchair users and individuals with limited mobility is available on all floors of Polonsky Shakespeare Center. For questions about accessible seating, please email tickets@tfana.org or call 212-229-2819 x10

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