The Merchant of Venice

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Audience members -- even those who had to wait in line for hours for tickets -- won't be disappointed in Al Pacino as Shylock, the marquee attraction in Daniel Sullivan's extremely memorable production of William Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice, the first offering of the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theatre. But it's the sublime Lily Rabe, as his unlikely adversary Portia, who walks off with the evening's highest honors, proving (yet again) that she may be the finest stage actress of her generation.

As the Jewish moneylender bent on revenge against the Christians who have wronged him -- a plot point heavily underscored by the savvy Sullivan -- the 7[...]