‘Hamlet’ with Ian McKellen extends Theatre Royal Windsor run
Ian McKellen leads a reimagined age, colour, and gender-blind production of Hamlet
Ian McKellen
Noel Coward biopic to star Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield
B Good Picture Company is planning a September 2021 shoot for its new biopic of Noel Coward, called Noel starring Asa Butterfield.
Ian McKellen launches fund to pay actors wages as his donations to British Theatre top £5million
Sir Ian McKellen donations to British Theatre top £5million
Ian McKellen to play ‘Hamlet’ in age-blind production
Multi-award winning octogenarian to play Hamlet at Theatre Royal Windsor
Ian McKellen stages free show for 80 octogenarians
The much-loved actor is touring his one-man show to raise funds for local theatres
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Gillian Anderson, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Damian Lewis and more to star in Whodunnit [Unrehearsed]
A different guest performer will appear each night in the murder mystery
Ian McKellen to celebrate his 80th birthday on 80 Stages
80 Stages for 80 Years! Ian McKellen will celebrate his birthday with a grand tour.
Game of Thrones, Poldark, The Crown – get your fix of famous faces live on stage in 2018
Over 40 stars on stage in London this year
King Lear at the Duke of York’s Theatre
King Lear at the Duke of York’s Theatre starring Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen in King Lear – review round-up
Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Casting announced for Ian McKellen’s King Lear
An all-star supporting cast for Chichester’s King Lear
Daniel Evans announces first Chichester Season
Evans’ highly anticipated season includes Alan Bennett, Tennessee Williams & Shakespeare
No Man’s Land starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
First look at the highly anticipated No Man’s Land
Damien Molony cast in No Man’s Land
Molony joins Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Owen Teale in Pinter’s classic play
Cinema Screening of Richard III starring Sir Ian McKellen
Special Event Cinema with live Q&A with Ian McKellen
Owen Teale joins cast of No Man’s Land
Tony Award winning actor Owen Teale joins Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man’s Land. Owen Teale will play ‘Briggs’ joining the previously announced Ian McKellen as ‘Spooner’ and Patrick Stewart as ‘Hirst’. Directed by Sean Mathias, No Man’s Land will tour venues in the UK from 3 August 2016 prior to a limited run at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre from September 2016. Known recently for playing Ser Alliser Thorne in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Teale won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Torvald in A Doll’s House. Other notable theatre credits include Dance of …
No Man’s Land at the Wyndham’s Theatre
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to star in No Man’s Land.
Acting legends Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart bring their hit Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s classic No Man’s Land to London’s West End.
Ian McKellen and Stanley Tucci join Almedia’s The Odyssey
Almeida completes season with epic reading of Homer’s The Odyssey
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man’s Land?
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to return to the West End stage in Pinter’s No Man’s Land?
Stage Spy: Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins reunite for The Dresser
Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser to be remade by the BBC starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ian McKellen The Telegraph reports today that the BBC is planning a big new dramatisation of Ronald Harwood’s award-winning 1980 play The Dresser. Directed by Sir Richard Eyre, the production will see the two Sirs reunited after working with each other way back in the Sixties at Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. McKellen will play the dresser Norman, with Hopkins as the actor-manager “Sir”, believed to have been based on the great West End actor Sir Donald Wolfit. The …
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Gay Theatre Movers and Shakers in the World Pride Power List 2014
Which gay theatre folk have made this year’s World Pride Power List 2014?
Movie News: BBC Films announce The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith, London Road
BBC Films has announced its new slate for the Cannes Film Festival and it includes a new film adaptation of hit play The Lady In The Van. Maggie Smith will return to the role she immortalised on stage in 1999 as Miss Shepherd, alongside Alex Jennings – who is currently starring as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – playing Alan Bennett. The movie will reunite the team behind The History Boys – Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner, who also directed the stage play of The Lady in the Van. Kevin Loader, Damian Jones …
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Brits on Broadway this Autumn
British actors dominate Broadway this season as a host of famous UK names – including Daniel Craig, Ian McKellen, Mark Rylance and Orlando Bloom hit the Great White Way.
Royal Mail launches RSC stamps
The Royal Mail has launched a new set of stamps to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Chichester Festival announces new season
Chichester Festival Theatre announces new season
Chichester Festival Theatre Announces Festival 2011
Chichester Festival Theatre Announces Festival 2011
Ian Charleson Awards
We might have missed it but the publicity around the winners of this year’s Ian Charleson Awards seemed particularly muted. Even the Sunday Times, the sponsor of the awards, gave little promotion to the nominations or winners. This year marks 20 years since actor Ian Charleson died on 6 January 1990 of AIDS-related causes, only eight weeks after playing Hamlet in Richard Eyre’s production at the National Theatre. He was an extremely accomplished actor, appearing in film (Chariots of Fire), TV (Oxbridge Blues) and numerous stage roles, both plays and musicals, including Guys and Dolls and Fool For Love. The …
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Actor Winners
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Actor Winners
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Comedy Winners
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Comedy Winners
OLIVIER AWARDS – Special and Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
OLIVIER AWARDS – Special and Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Last night at a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Opera House, the 55th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards recognised a host of London theatre productions and talent.
London Theatre – 2009 Preview
If theatre mirrors life then you would expect 2009 to be a bad year for the performing arts in London: economic downturns and credit crunches sound like gloomy news for our discretionary entertainment spending. But West End theatre box office figures have kept on going up in recent years, and the huge number of new productions sailing into town during 2009 could mean that Theatreland manages to buck the trend. THE GREAT REVIVAL The RSC, National Theatre, Donmar and Old Vic dominated straight drama in the West End in 2008, and they haven’t finished yet. Big hitters coming to …