Plays by Date
June 1950 - June 1958: Schoolboy Acting
October 1958 - August 1961: Cambridge University Undergraduate Productions
September 1961 - June 1962: Belgrade Theatre Company, Coventry
September 1962 - October 1963: Arts Theatre Company, Ipswich
December 1963 - June 1964: Nottingham Playhouse
September 1964 - February 1968: London and Broadway
November 1968 - July 1972: Touring, Directing, London
August 1972 - May 1974: The Actors' Company
August 1974 - January 1976: Royal Shakespeare Company
March 1976 - April 1978: Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford),
Acting Shakespeare
July 1978 - April 1979: Small Scale Tour
May 1979 - February 1984:
Bent
,
Acting Shakespeare
,
Amadeus
April 1984 - August 1986: Royal National Theatre
February 1987 - December 1989:
Acting Shakespeare
,
Henceforward
...
,
Othello
January 1990 - September 1992:
Richard III
and the Royal National Theatre
October 1993 - June 1997:
A Knight Out
September 1997 - September 1998: Royal National Theatre
October 1998 - February 1999: West Yorkshire Playhouse
January 2001 - July 2006:
Dance of Death
,
Aladdin
March 2007 - June 2012:
King Lear
,
The Seagull
,
Waiting for Godot, The Syndicate
August 2013- December 2016:
No Man's Land
,
Waiting for Godot
2017 - 2020:
Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others and You;
King Lear; Ian McKellen on Stage
2021 - 2023:
Hamlet
/
The Cherry Orchard
(Windsor);
Hamlet
(Edinburgh);
Mother Goose;
Frank and Percy
2024:
Player Kings
Writings by Ian McKellen