Ian McKellen first came to fame when he appeared in the West End, at the Piccadilly Theatre, in 1970 in a double-bill of Shakespeare’s Richard II and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, playing two homos ...
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Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which premiered in 1899, is generally considered to be one of the great plays of the 20th century. Not that you would know it from this revival. Simon Stephens’ radi ...
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Matthew Bourne, master dance theatre showman, has been successfully reinventing the major classical ballets over the last thirty years. His version of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered in 2019, is a f ...
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Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...
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