John Gielgud

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![]() Date of Birth:
April 14, 1904
Date of Death:
May 21, 2000 (96)
Birth Place: London, ENGLAND
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Evening Standard Awards - 1982 - Lebedev Special Award ![]() |
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Olivier Awards - 1978 - Actor of the Year in a New Play | ||
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Drama Desk Awards - 1977 - Unique Theatrical Experience ![]() |
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Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1977 - Best Actor ![]() |
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Drama Desk Awards - 1971 - Outstanding Performance ![]() |
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Tony Awards - 1971 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | ||
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Tony Awards - 1965 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | ||
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Tony Awards - 1963 - Best Direction of a Play | ||
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Tony Awards - 1959 - Special Tony Award ![]() |
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John Gielgud News

by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 27, 2023
With a week to go before rehearsals begin, the full cast for Jack Thorne’s new play, The Motive and the Cue, directed by Sam Mendes, is revealed.

by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 25, 2023
VAULT Festival 2023 will present the Vandens Karta Ensemble's The Cathedral from 14-17 March 2023 (21:15) at The Studio.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 23, 2023
The full cast and design team has been announced for the Broadway production of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Fat Ham by James Ijames. See who is starring in the show, how to purchase tickets and more!

by Michael Major - Feb 5, 2023
Following her new GRAMMY win, Viola Davis has become the 18th person in history to achieve the EGOT status. Davis has won two Tony Awards for King Hedley II in 2001 and then for Fences in 2010. She won an Emmy Award for How to Get Away With Murder and an Oscar for reprising her stage role in the film adaptation of Fences.

by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jan 5, 2023
BAFTA-winning screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne has revealed he was diagnosed with autism after a listener got in touch about his interview on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 4, 2023
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation announced that the 2022 Joe A. Callaway Awards will be awarded to Saheem Ali for excellence in directing for Fat Ham (The Public Theater) and Josh Prince for excellence in choreography for Trevor: the Musical (Stage 42).

by Stephi Wild - Dec 22, 2022
BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Christopher Tucker, who designed the original prosthetics for the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, has died at age 76.

by A.A. Cristi - Dec 9, 2022
This week, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) shared that one of the inaugural SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artists, Shá Cage, is completing her residency with Cornerstone Theater Company by directing Michael John Garcés's play, 36 Yesses.

by Nicole Rosky - Dec 5, 2022
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Fat Ham by James Ijames will make its Broadway premiere in 2023. The Public’s Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director Saheem Ali returns to direct the complete original Off-Broadway cast, including Nikki Crawford as “Tedra,” Chris Herbie Holland as “Tio,” Billy Eugene Jones as “Rev” and “Pap,” Adrianna Mitchell as “Opal,” Calvin Leon Smith as “Larry,” Marcel Spears as “Juicy,” and Benja Kay Thomas as “Rabby.”

by Stephi Wild - Nov 22, 2022
The National Theatre has announced three new productions for 2023 and the revival of the critically acclaimed The Father and the Assassin. A new production devised by The PappyShow will tour directly to 55 schools across England, and National Theatre Live brings The Crucible, Othello and GOOD to cinema goers around the world.
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by Stage Tube - Jun 9, 2019
Rosemary Harris won her first Tony Award nearly 55 years ago in THE LION IN WINTER, now starring in the Lincoln Center Broadway revival of MY FAIR LADY, at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, she received a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award. Watch her accept the award here.


by Alan Henry - Jan 25, 2019
Twenty years after they first performed the roles, Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell re-united to sing 'Wheels of a Dream' from Ragtime LIVE at the Kennedy Center at the et Freedom Ring! concert in collaboration with Georgetown University on January 21st, 2019. Check out the video below!


by A.A. Cristi - Oct 16, 2018
Angela Lansbury has enjoyed a career without precedent. Her professional career spans more than half-a-century, during which she has flourished, first as a star of motion pictures, then as a four-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical star, and most recently as the star of 'Murder, She Wrote,' the longest running detective drama series in the history of television.


by A.A. Cristi - Oct 16, 2017
Today we celebrate the birth of one of the stage's greatest legends, Angela Lansbury!


by Rona Kelly - Jul 19, 2017
'Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you: trippingly on the tongue.' Without uttering almost a single word until the final scene, Dickie Beau speaks volumes in his latest show. Mixing mediums, lip synching and Shakespeare, Dickie Beau: Re-Member Me is an eclectic Hamlet mixtape.
by Stage Tube - Dec 23, 2015
Today in 1935, Romeo and Juliet opened at the Martin Beck Theatre. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.
by Stage Tube - Dec 23, 2014
Today in 1935, Romeo and Juliet opened at the Martin Beck Theatre. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.
by Stage Tube - Oct 8, 2014
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier this week, Tony winner and premier actress of the American stage Marian Seldes, 86, died peacefully at her home Monday after an extended illness. Her brother Timothy Seldes made the announcement. Below, watch a special tribute to Seldes as complied by Rick McKay as a part of the Broadway: The Golden Age Film Trilogy.
by Stage Tube - Oct 7, 2014
Below, BroadwayWorld remembers the legend with a selection of video footage from some of her more recent appearances.
by TV News Desk - Feb 21, 2014
BuzzFeed Brews interview with Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen, moderated by Tommy Wesely, BuzzFeed's Director of Development. The internet's favorite bromance will discuss their current Broadway run, their iconic roles in television and film, and why the online world may just be their best stage yet.