"The USA tour of my solo Acting Shakespeare was a response to the failure of Wild Honey on Broadway. Henceforward... for a year in the West End was a response to my coming out as a gay man. My brief return to the Royal Shakespeare Company led back to Trevor Nunn and the familiar territory of subsidised theatrework."
— Ian McKellen, October 1999
| Year | Place | Title/Writer | Director/Role |
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| 1987 |
USA Tour San Francisco, Washington DC, Princeton, LA, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Diego, Boston |
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (US 1987)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen
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| 1987 |
Playhouse Theatre London |
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (London 1987)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen
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| 1988 |
UK Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, Dublin, Belfast, Leicester, Wakefield, Edinburgh, |
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (UK 1988)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen
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| 1988 |
Delaware Theatre Wilmington, Delaware |
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (Wilmington)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen
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| 1988 |
Piccadilly Theatre London |
Before the Act Gay and Lesbian writers and composers
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ROLE: Producer/Uncle Freddie |
| 1988 |
Playhouse Theatre London |
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (London 1988)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen
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| 1988 |
Vaudeville Theatre London |
HENCEFORWARD...
Alan Ayckbourn |
ROLE: Jerome |
| 1989 |
Haymarket Theatre London |
Promenaid |
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| 1989 |
Adelphi Theatre London |
BENT (1989)
Martin Sherman |
ROLE: Max |
| 1989 |
Royal Shakespeare Company The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon; The Young Vic, |
OTHELLO
William Shakespeare |
DIRECTOR: Trevor Nunn ROLE: Iago London Evening Standard Award - Best Actor London Critics' Circle Award - Best Actor |