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5 days ago · In 1949, the American actor Sam Wanamaker arrived in London for the first time, expecting to find the theatre where the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries were first performed. But Sam was to be disappointed - all he found was a blackened plaque on an old brewery wall marking the site where the Globe once stood.
2 days ago · In 1994, in anticipation of the 1997 opening of a reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the South Bank by Sam Wanamaker, the theatre was renamed in honour of British actor John Gielgud.
5 days ago · Following his run in The Olivier Award winning Oklahoma, Greg Hicks returns to the stage at the Sam Wanamaker in a new production of Ibsen’s Ghosts, directed by Jo Hill Gibbons this autumn whilst Sandy Foster and Colm Gormley both return to the RSC.
Polly’s prolific career includes credits in Hamlet (The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), After Miss Julie (Young Vic), and Macbeth (Chichester, West End, and Broadway). She’s also appeared in The Crown, The Great, Eastenders, Life Begins and more.
4 days ago · Mark the quatercentenary of Thomas Middleton’s early modern thriller A Game at Chess in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with this fascinating look at its performance history and cultural impact.
4 days ago · Shakespeare's classic comedy The Taming of the Shrew comes to the Globe this summer, starring Andrew Leung ( Barbie) as Petruchio and Thalissa Teixeira ( We Met Before) as Katherina/the Shrew. Book The Taming of the Shrew tickets on London Theatre.
3 days ago · She shared the Sam Wanamaker Award with Giles Block in 2011 for services to the Globe. She also works on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2012 she was awarded the François Florent Prize in Paris.
