for Othello and Outstanding Lead Actor (The Lortels) for Othello. What awards has John Douglas Thompson won? John Douglas Thompson has received several prestigious awards, including a Special ...
"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," ...
Thompson's performance is "magisterial", said Simon Thompson on What's on Stage. But the whole company bristles with "New World swagger", bringing vivid life – and striking vocal clarity ...
English-American actor John Douglas Thompson is travelling to Scotland for the first time to perform in The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. He tells Fergus Morgan about how being ...
When the actor John Douglas Thompson was a young lad growing up in Canada, and then in upstate New York, the idea of a career in theatre simply never crossed his mind. “I never or hardly ever ...
The most obvious hook is casting a Black actor as Shylock in an attempt to equate the ... At the play’s heart is the magisterial Shylock of John Douglas Thompson. He plays the outcast Jew with wounded ...
John Douglas Thompson tells Joyce McMillan that the play’s themes of othering and hatred seem more relevant than ever following he re-election of Donald Trump When the actor John Douglas ...