CMU School of Drama


Friday, April 01, 2022

How ‘Nathan the Wise’ — 'the anti-Shylock' — got onstage at Theater J

DC Metro Theater Arts: Nathan the Wise—the sparkling new adaptation produced by Theater J in partnership with the Folger, is a delicious romp through a moment in history when tolerance actually triumphed. Written more than two centuries after Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Gotthold Lessing’s comedy is a welcome riposte to the earlier drama.

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