All new photos have been released for The Merchant of Venice, performed in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, directed by Abigail Graham and designed by Sarah Beaton. Abigail and the company ...

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-con Bosola in her court as a spy, allowing them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Wills’s designs flood the interior of the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with gold – as though the theatre’s candle-light has turned liquid, dripping and smudging down pillars and creeping ...

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 ...

It begins, as so many of Shakespeare’s stories do, in the dark. The Thames breathes mist across Bankside, while inside the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, hundreds of candles are kindled into life. The ...

Founded in 2014 by former War Horse puppeteers Finn Caldwell and Toby Olie, Gyre & Gimble’s style of puppet-led theatre has established itself in productions including The Grinning Man, The Lorax and ...