A bold and innovative one-man show, Ian McKellen’s Acting Shakespeare blends stand-up comedy, music, and drama into an unforgettable theatrical experience. Inspired by Ian McKellen’s original Acting ...

Ian McKellen disagrees with several aspects of the film Hamnet, based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, which concerns itself with the life of William Shakespeare. "I don't quite get it," ...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater welcomed more than 600 students, educators, and young people from across the Chicago area on January 29 for a free student performance of One Knight Only! Sir Ian McKellen ...

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools. The ...

Sir Ian McKellen will be introducing a UK performance of William Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night" featuring a cast entirely of transgender and non-binary performers this summer. The Trans What You Will ...

Ian McKellen is to celebrate his 8oth birthday next year by raising funds for theatres, with a new solo show which will play on 80 stages across the UK. It all begins in January 2019 with a Tour of ...

Today, May 25, 2026, Sir Ian McKellen turns 87. He was born in 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, and grew up in Wigan and Bolton. Today, he stands as one of Britain's greatest living actors, a performer ...

Ian McKellen can speed through Richard III— no problem. He's also played King Learand the Danish prince. But Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which imagines the creative origins of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?