John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more
I have been wrestling with how best to contribute regularly to this blog while I am much preoccupied with a number of productions and several more extended pieces of writing. Sunday links columns like this have been the only ones more
For all sorts of reasons, I'm really looking forward to tonight's BBC Four broadcast of The Duchess of Malfi recorded at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. First off, John Webster's revenge tragedy is one of my favourite plays (along more
To Shakespeare's Globe - or at least to the Sackler Studios just round the corner - for a wonderfully jolly staged reading on Sunday of Philip Massinger's comedy A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Probably more
To Shakespeare's Globe on a sunny Sunday morning. This is my first live encounter with the Globe to Globe season of all 37 plays by 37 companies in 37 languages. (I have also been watching recordings more