Following an extended Canadian run, Starvox Entertainment is currently presenting the New York premiere of Mark Leiren-Young's Playing Shylock. And the critics have chimed in.

Martin Kinch directs the limited engagement, which began October 16and opened October 25 at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center, home of Theatre for a New Audience. Performances are currently scheduled through December 7. 

Saul Rubinek again stars. Playing Shylock is set after a production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is canceled mid-performance because of public outcries about antisemitism. The actor playing Shylock (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.

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Rubinek, recently seen on stage in Ethan Coen's A Play Is a Poem, is known for his work on such series as Frasier, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hunters, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Schitt’s Creek, as well as the films Wall Street, Against All Odds, Unforgiven, True Romance, The Family Man, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Kinch is joined on the creative team by set and costume designer Shawn Kerwin and sound designer Olivia Wheeler.

For tickets visit TFANA.org or Playingshylock.com.