To celebrate Shakespeare's 400 year legacy, the University of the Arts London have released an original costume design for John Gielgud's famous 1944 portrayal of Hamlet at the Theatre Royal London, ...

In October 1953, while he was rehearsing for N.C. Hunter’s play A Day by the Sea at London’s Haymarket Theatre, John Gielgud was arrested for importuning a young man in Chelsea and booked at a local ...

To Londoners, Shakespeare in the modern theater generally means the Old Vic or John Gielgud; to the rest of England, it more likely means a tireless, 44-year-old trouper named Donald Wolfit. Ten years ...

Stage and screen actor Brian Bedford has died in California. The actor trained at RADA in the 50s and worked onstage in several high profile Shakespeare productions. In 1958 he starred as Ariel, ...