Sir Patrick Stewart News

A limited number of tickets are available to watch the March 28th final dress rehearsal of 'Macbeth,' starring Patrick Stewart, at 8 pm at The Lyceum Theatre in New York.

Broadway luminaries Bobby Cannavale, Cheyenne Jackson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Rosie Perez, Martha Plimpton and Patrick Stewart are the first performers to be named as honorary co-chairs for The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12noon at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. The event will be hosted by Master of Ceremonies Harvey Fierstein, a past recipient of the Drama League's annual Distinguished Performance Award.

Direct from sold-out, critically acclaimed engagements at BAM, The West End's Gielgud Theatre and UK's Chichester Festival Theatre, Patrick Stewart comes to Broadway in the five-time Olivier Award-nominated production of Macbeth. Opening April 8 at the Lyceum Theatre; beginning previews March 28 with performances through May 24.

Rupert Goold's production of 'MacBeth', starring Patrick Stewart, is a frighteningly genius work of art.

The Schoolhouse Theatre presents a solid, if somewhat bland, revival of Arthur Miller's modern classic.

The nominations were just released for the 2008 Olivier Awards and Haispray is leading the pack with 11 nominations.

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2007 were hosted today by its Chairman Charles Spencer, theatre critic of The Daily Telegraph, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Top winners included the new production of 'Hairspray,' Patrick Stewart and Rupert Goold of 'Macbeth,' plus new play 'A Disappearing Number,' and actors Charles Dance, Anne-Marie Duff, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

West End's production of Hairspray and Rupert Goold's Macbeth were among the top winners at the 2007 Evening Standard Awards Ceremony, held Tuesday November 27; Richard Wilson hosted.

A director has been found for the upcoming X-Men spin-off Wolverine, starring Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman in the title role.

The New York International Fringe Festival, The Strollers, and Madeline Walter will present the New York premiere of Madeline Walter's Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir from Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 26th.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host its 20th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (1301 Constitution Avenue NW).

Kathleen Turner and Rufus Sewell are among the winners of the London Evening Standard Awards

Patrick Stewart will headline two Shakespeare plays--The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra--on the West End

The American Theatre Wing's Acting: Working in the Theatre (Continuum International Publishing Group/The K.S. Giniger Company Inc.; $14.95; paperback), a collection of advice and anecdotes from a chorus line of the stage's biggest stars, will be available in bookstores on June 30, 2006

Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter play the title roles in Antony and Cleopatra, running in repertory through October 14th in Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the Complete Works Festival

A full program has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival in April

Patrick Stewart revives his one-man Christmas Carol, Billy runs against Poppins for Best Musical, Blue Man Group opens and Wicked plans to fly East?

Patrick Stewart will take his acclaimed solo version of A Christmas Carol to London this holiday season

Shakespearean icons such as Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench will be among the actors featured in the RSC's new CD set The Essential Shakespeare--Live

The Royal Shakespeare Company will stage all 37 of the Bard's plays in Stratford-upon-Avon beginning next spring, in addition to new works, musical adaptations, readings of sonnets, and much more