Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at opening night party after his opening on Broadway in Hamlet in 1964 Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It all started somewhat in jest while the film Becket was being shot in 1963. Stars Peter O’Toole and Richard ...

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New work alert! A new play by Jack Thorne, The Motive and the Cue, will open in the National Theatre's Lyttelton space in the spring of 2023. Directed by Sam Mendes, the staging is a co-production ...

A quixotic hunger for completism, for making a mountain out of a mountain, rests uneasily at the core of “The Wooster Group’s Hamlet.” The indispensable avant-garde company has chosen to apply its ...

In The Wooster Group’s HAMLET, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is re-imagined by mixing and repurposing Richard Burton’s 1964 Broadway production, directed by John Gielgud. The Burton production was ...

In the centre of Jack Thorne’s quite wonderful new play about the 1964 production of Hamlet when John Gielgud directed Richard Burton, there’s a scene where the two men, embodied by Mark Gatiss and ...

Hamlet. Richard Burton plays Hamlet as Hamlet would like to have been. He may be self-critical, but he is never self-doubting. He is whole of soul, single of mind, undivided of purpose. If the text ...

To be, or not to be, is the driving question behind James Ijames’s play and Wilbury Theatre’s Rhode Island premiere production PROVIDENCE — The great Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The result of two years of writing and workshops is a Thorne-penned drama called The Motive and the Cue, which Mendes will direct ...