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 attention of ...

Tim Crouch brings his idiosyncratic style to The Tempest, and it’s a match made in theatre heaven. Here, heaven is the Sam ...

Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. 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 ...

The Taming Of The Shrew is one of those Shakespeare plays that has the reputation of being 'difficult'. As with Othello or Merchant Of Venice, four hundred years on, there are new challenges. And in ...

The Prozorov sisters are desperate for entertainment. Plagued by their dreary provincial life, they yearn for the lights and excitement of Moscow, but have to make do with the visiting soldiers. When ...

We open on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’s beautiful, even Christmassy, candles and its harsh, pew-like seats - it’s not the last contradiction of the evening. Helen (Ruby Bentall, pictured right), a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...