“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

When Sir Ian McKellen performed the first same-sex kiss on British TV in the 1970 BBC production of Christopher Marlowe’s ...

The co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company returns to the stage after a 14-year hiatus, but does Daniel Raggett's ...

Ian McKellen said in a new interview that he hopes more LGBTQ+ actors embrace their sexuality, explaining that 'being in the ...

I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston.' There has been much conjecture over the ...

In an interview with 'The Times of London' Sunday, the Lord of the Rings actor Ian McKellen urged LGBTQ actors to come out of the closet.

RSC’s co-artistic director Daniel Evans returns to the stage in Daniel Raggett’s production, running until 5 April ...

INTERVIEW: Daniel Evans talks about playing the lead in ‘political thriller’ Edward II at the RSC Swan Theatre ...

Screen and stage veteran Sir Ian McKellen urges young gay actors to come out, liking their situation to star footballers in ...

Both of the RSC’s major new productions begin with funereal solemnity: Hamlet (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) starts with a burial at sea; Edward II (in the Swan Theatre) opens with the dead ...