Stephen Boxer News

Two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale's performance in the title role of William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes, will be seen by cinema audiences worldwide whenNATIONAL THEATRE LIVE broadcasts the production live from the National's Olivier Theatre on Thursday, May 1, 2014, with varying dates internationally and encore screenings to follow.

Sam Mendes directs Shakespeare's KING LEAR, opening in the Olivier Theatre on 23 January. Simon Russell Beale plays the title role; the cast also includes Stephen Boxer (as Gloucester), Cassie Bradley, Tom Brooke (Edgar), Richard Clothier, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Kate Fleetwood (Goneril), Simon Manyonda, Anna Maxwell Martin (Regan), Daniel Millar, Michael Nardone, Gary Powell, Adrian Scarborough (Fool), Hannah Stokely, Stanley Townsend (Kent), Sam Troughton (Edmund), Olivia Vinall (Cordelia) and Ross Waiton. The production will be designed by Anthony Ward, with lighting by Paul Pyant, video design by Jon Driscoll, fight direction by Terry King and sound design by Paul Arditti.

A stellar international cast join Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing the titular role (Nessa Stein) in the eight part mini-series.

In 1610 William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest and William Adams was shipwrecked onto the coast of Japan. Performed in conjunction with the RSC's season A World Elsewhere (director Gregory Dolan is also the RSC's artistic director), Anjin the Shogun and the English Samurai takes place in a politically tempestuous period of Japan's history. Yet writer Mike Poulton's story of the first Englishman to arrive and settle in Japan seems an apt and rather lovely choice for this year's J400 celebrations, marking four hundred years of UK-Japan relations.

Gregory Doran's production of ANJIN: THE SHOGUN & THE ENGLISH SAMURAI, written by Mike Poulton with Sho Kawai, will play eleven performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre from 31 January to 9 February, with the press night on Thursday 31 January.

The TMA held its annual Theatre Awards UK at London's historic Guildhall, on Sunday 28 October 2012. Scroll below for the winners!

The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) has today (Thursday 27 September 2012) announced the nominations for its Theatre Awards UK 2012 with the full list of nominations now online at www.tmauk.org

The Finborough Theatre Announces two upcoming productions for August, 2011, Blue Surge and Portraits.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of artist Augustus John, the first production in 24 years of William Douglas Home's Portraits opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of six Sunday and Monday performances from Sunday, 7 August 2011 (Press Night: Monday, 8 August 2011).

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of artist Augustus John, the first production in 24 years of William Douglas Home's Portraits opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of six Sunday and Monday performances from Sunday, 7 August 2011 (Press Night: Monday, 8 August 2011).

The Finborough Theatre Announces two upcoming productions for August, 2011, Blue Surge and Portraits.

Gary Naylor, as a father, is uneasy at seeing the kind of choices fathers must make in Ryan Craig's examination of an Jewish household in Edgware.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.

HAY FEVER is now playing at the Rose Theater in Kingston until October 23. The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Nichola McAuliffe as Judith Bliss.