EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne on a new project for the stage that will explore how legendary acting figures ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has picked Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John ...

You’ll get goosebumps watching The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre – it’s a side effect of being in the company of ghosts. Jack Thorne’s deeply affecting play, directed by Sam Mendes, ...

Sir John Gielgud made a posthumous stage appearance for charity as a bronze bust of the late theatre legend was auctioned off along with a slew of his mementos. The special Sotheby's auction raised $1 ...

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Part of the generation of great Shakespearean actors that included Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, and Laurence Olivier, Gielgud outlived them all--to the very end performing in movies, reading ...

Gavin Lambert is the author of many books, including "Natalie Wood: A Life," "Nazimova" and "On Cukor." British theater enjoyed a golden age of actors from 1930 through the 1950s. (The only 18-karat ...

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the ...

(L-R) Johnny Flynn (Richard Burton, inset), Tuppence Middleton (Elizabeth Taylor, inset) and Mark Gaitiss (John Gielgud inset) Autumn de Wilde/Getty Images/Joseph Sinclair/Eivind Hansen EXCLUSIVE: Sam ...

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 ...