LONDON — When American actor and director Sam Wanamaker moved to Britain in the 1950s after learning he was blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in the U.S., he was paranoid about drawing the ...

The titular Duchess has been widowed, and her possessive brothers (Ferdinand and the Cardinal) do not want her to remarry - to this end, they place ex-con Bosola in her court as a spy, allowing them ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. For the first time ever in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, ...

Shakespeare’s Globe has given the first glimpse of its new indoor Jacobean theatre, which will be called the Sam Wanamaker Theatre in honour of the man who masterminded the original Globe ...

Paul Wills’s designs flood the interior of the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with gold – as though the theatre’s candle-light has turned liquid, dripping and smudging down pillars and creeping ...

Producer Thelma Holt has been awarded the 2018 Sam Wanamaker Award. In a ceremony on the weekend, Shakespeare's Globe chief executive Neil Constable and director of education Patrick Spottiswoode ...

It was Shakespeare who wrote that “all the world’s a stage,” but there are times when an actual stage — and theater — are in demand. Nearly 17 years after Shakespeare’s Globe Theater launched in ...

When Cavalli’s L’Ormindo appeared at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse last March it was the first opera to grace the then newly opened candlelit venue. The production was received exceptionally well, and ...

Founded in 2014 by former War Horse puppeteers Finn Caldwell and Toby Olie, Gyre & Gimble’s style of puppet-led theatre has established itself in productions including The Grinning Man, The Lorax and ...