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Alon Nashman

Production photo from The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare BASH'd. iPhoto caption: Photo by Kyle Purcell.

REVIEW: How Shakespeare BASH’d transformed The Merchant of Venice into a tense, layered tragedy

Julia Nish-Lapidus’ recently closed production sensitively explored the issues raised in Mark Leiren-Young’s Playing Shylock without purporting to offer any answers.

By Ilana Lucas / Feb 27, 2025
iPhoto caption: Adanya Dunn in 2017 production of Charlotte. Photo credit: Cylla von Tiedemann.

My 20-year journey with Charlotte

It started with an obsession, an idea I could not shake, a meeting with someone whose life seemed to hang in the balance, and for whom I might be a champion.

By Alon Nashman / May 20, 2019