His first acting teacher said he walked “like a cat with rickets,” and the actor himself described his awkward gait as that of a man whose knees were tied together with ribbons. But Sir John Gielgud, ...

correctionAn article in the July 20 Arts section contained an incorrect reference to the plays in which Shakespeare's character Falstaff appears. He is in the "Henry IV" plays. (Published 7/23/03) ...

Ben Elton has fashioned an original story that picks up in 1605, a decade after where the third series left off (with the death of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet), and two years into the reign of ...

Ages of Man is a dinner-jacketed Sir John Gielgud standing on an unadorned stage reciting Shakespeare. If such an all-Shakespeare recital must differ from an all-Beethoven program by offering excerpts ...

Can an 86-year-old actor play a 16-year-old girl? Well, yes, it seems, if his name is John Gielgud and his director is Peter Greenaway. Sir John is portraying not only a 16-year-old girl named Miranda ...

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at opening night party after his opening on Broadway in Hamlet in 1964 Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Rediscover the music of the spoken word as John Gielgud (Arthur) conducts a ...

The death of John Gielgud ends a glorious chapter in English and American theater history. The personification of the stiff-upper-lip, splendidly postured Englishman, Gielgud was descended from ...

The first photograph in Jonathan Croall's encyclopedic biography shows the 19-year-old Gielgud, arms spread wide, head wrapped in a scarf and waist in a cummerbund, sporting a set of delicate wings.

YOU WATCH “Prospero’s Books” wondering where in the world director Peter Greenaway (he did the script and directed) got the money to do it. It had to cost a small bundle. It is, without a doubt, one ...