Patrick Stewart to Play Shylock in the RSC's The Merchant of Venice
Patrick Stewart will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Jewish moneylender Shylock in The Merchant of Venice next spring, according to London’s Daily Mail. The production, helmed by RSC regular Rupert Goold, will begin performances on May 13, 2011. Stewart starred in the recently shuttered Broadway production of David Mamet’s A Life in the Theater opposite T.R. Knight, and was a Tony nomin…