The Merchant of Venice

As a companion piece to his production of the harrowing pogrom play Our Class, Arlekin Players Theatre director Igor Golyak sticks around at Classic Stage Company—along with much of that show's cast—with his new adapation of Shakespeare's troublesome Jew-baiting tragicomedy, a cornerstone of literary antisemitism. Richard Topol plays the bloodthirsty usurer Shylock and Alexandra Silber is his nemesis, the high-born and high-minded Portia; they are supported by Class-mates Gus Birney, José Espinosa, Tess Goldwyn and Stephen Ochsner, plus T.R. Knight (Grey's Anatomy) as the titular merchant.