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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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a highly acclaimed, sold-out run at the National Theatre, *The Motive and the Cue* transfers to the West End for a strictly limited 15-week run, playing at the Noël Coward Theatre from 9 ...

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 ...