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The actor Sir Ian McKellen, a Shakespearean actor also known as the wizard Gandalf in all three “Lord of the Rings” films, is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a one-night benefit performance ...

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Trans What You Will will launch its debut production with a rehearsed reading of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, entirely directed by and starring trans and non-binary performers. The ...

Researchers perhaps know more about the dark side of the moon than Shakespeare's true inspirations behind creating his own brand of genre-defining, mind-bending, classic literature. This leaves room ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: ianmckellen/Instagram Sir Ian McKellen took the stage on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on February 4, 2026, and ...

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," ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The legendary actor dismissed the movie for improbability: “I don’t quite get it.” Ian McKellen, who has spent his career interpreting Shakespearean ...

Ian McKellen recites Shakespeare to slam 'mountainous inhumanity' in U.S. The gay actor delivered a 400-year-old monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that fiercely confronts American ...