Shakespeare theatre

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Beautiful Places...Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, UK, photo courtesy of the Globe Theatre’s press library.

Shakespeare's theater, London

Shakespeare’s original Globe theatre (known as ‘The Globe’) first opened in London in the year 1599. The open-air theatre staged some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays over the next 14 years. However in 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the entire theatre burnt down after a prop malfunctioned and set the thatched roof on fire. The second Globe was built within a year and operated until 1642 when it was closed by parliamentary decree. Today’s Globe Theatre is a reconstruction that…

Francesca Annis in Romeo and Juliet. Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon. 1976.

The Globe, which opened in 1599, became the playhouse where audiences first saw some of Shakespeare's best-known plays.

Is Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre tour on your bucket list? As a former theatre and acting teacher, this experience was certainly part of my list of things to do in London. However (and this is the part where you probably won’t like me), seeing another Shakespearean play performed is not on my list. That’s the reason...

SHAKESPEARE’S Globe theatre allowed a man in a gimp suit to watch a play while children were in the audience. Parents complained to the venue after he was let in, despite being clad head-to-toe in latex. The bodysuit-wearing London theatre-goer, who also wore a “scary” harness, watched a matinee performance of The Comedy of Errors. […]

Explore William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London: Elizabethan Theatre

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An Elizabethan theater--restoration. The courtyards of London inns often served as playhouses before regular theaters were built. These inn yards furnished many suggestions for the early theaters, as the picture shows. The stage was in one end, and the open space in front served as the pit. The galleries around the sides afforded additional space for spectators.

Shakespeare's Globe goes around the world with Hamlet – in pictures - On 23 April 2014, Hamlet was performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in London on the 450th anniversary of the playwright’s birth.

Your 1st look at the new cast of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE at the Noel Coward Theatre ♡ Now starring Orlando James & Eve Ponsonby as Will Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps: www.LOVEtheatre.com/tickets/3654/Shakespeare-in-Love?sid=PIN

Ify Egesi in The Globe (c) Amy Murrell

A glimpse behind the scenes of the predominantly young cast of the London theatre’s gender-bending production of As You Like It, directed by Ellen McDougall. The play runs until 29 October