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The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit Off-West End theatre in Covent Garden, London, England. It first opened on 18 July 1977. It first opened on 18 July 1977. Sam Mendes , Michael Grandage , Josie Rourke and Michael Longhurst have all served as artistic director, a post held since March 2024 by Tim Sheader . [ 1 ]
A 2005 production of Hamlet in Sarajevo by the East West Theatre Company, directed by Haris Pašović, transposed the action to 15th-century Istanbul. [54] In May 2009, Hamlet opened with Jude Law in the title role at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's.
The premiere production of Limehouse opened at the Donmar Warehouse on 2 March 2017 and ran until 15 April. [1] The cast consisted of Nathalie Armin as Deborah Owen, Roger Allam as Roy Jenkins , Tom Goodman-Hill as David Owen , Debra Gillett as Shirley Williams and Paul Chahidi as Bill Rodgers .
Michael Grandage CBE (born 2 May 1962) is a British theatre director and producer. He is currently artistic director of the Michael Grandage Company. [1] From 2002 to 2012 he was artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London [2] and from 2000 to 2005 he was artistic director of Sheffield Theatres.
The Donmar Warehouse's production of King Lear, starring Derek Jacobi was broadcast live from Covent Garden on 3 February 2011. In the summer of 2013, a broadcast of Macbeth starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston was broadcast live from the Manchester International Festival on 20 July 2013.
Michael Longhurst (born 1981) [1] was artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre in Covent Garden, London (2019-2024).He was appointed as its fourth artistic director, succeeding Josie Rourke in the role.
He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University, and began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, which became a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. [5] In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003).
[1] [2] and then at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Shepherd himself and starring Bob Peck as Paine and Michael Maloney as Blake. Peck reprised the role (alongside Mark Rylance as Blake and Lesley Clare O'Neill as Katherine) in an adaptation of the play for television in the BBC Two Encounters series, which featured similar fictionalized ...