Ian McKellen on Stage: Tolkien, Shakespeare and You!
UK Tour 25 January – 15 September 2019 West End Limited Run 20 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
Ian McKellen: ‘I’m celebrating my 80th birthday by touring a new solo show to theatres I know well and a few that I don’t. The show starts with Gandalf and will probably end with an invitation to act with me on stage. In-between there will be anecdotes and acting.
I open at my local arts centre in January and end up by August in Orkney.
Live theatre has always been thrilling to me, as an actor and in the audience.
Growing up in Lancashire I was grateful to those companies who toured beyond London and I’ve always enjoyed repaying that debt by touring up and down the country myself, with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Prospect Theatre, the Actors’ Company, as well as with commercial productions. Sean Mathias, the director and I have worked together for stage and screen: many happy times.
One Night Only at The Hudson Theatre, Broadway
Tickets on sale at the individual theatres or the official tour site. Links below:
| Dates | Theatre | City | |||
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| 25-Jan to 26-Jan | The Space | London | fb | tw | |
| 28-Jan | National Theatre, Lyttelton | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 30-Jan | Young Vic | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 01-Feb | Rose Theatre | Kingston | fb | tw | ig |
| 03-Feb | Bridge Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 04-Feb | Richmond Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 05-Feb | Sands Films | London | fb | tw | |
| 06-Feb | Above The Stag Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 10-Feb | Hampstead Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 11-Feb | Arts Theatre | London | fb | tw | |
| 12-Feb to 13-Feb | Theatre Royal Windsor | Windsor | fb | tw | ig |
| 15-Feb | Piccadilly Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 17-Feb to 17-Feb | Old Vic | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 19-Feb to 20-Feb | Bristol Old Vic | Bristol | fb | tw | ig |
| 22-Feb | Royal Court | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 24-Feb to 25-Feb | The Queens Theatre | Hornchurch | fb | tw | ig |
| 26-Feb | RADA (Students only) | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 01-Mar | Donmar Warehouse (Students only) | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 03-Mar | Lyric Hammersmith | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 04-Mar | Questors Ealing | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 07-Mar to 07-Mar | Duke of York’s Theatre | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 08-Mar to 09-Mar | Ipswich New Wolsey | Ipswich | fb | tw | ig |
| 10-Mar | Theatre Royal Stratford East | London | fb | tw | ig |
| 13-Mar | Swansea Grand Theatre | Swansea | fb | tw | ig |
| 14-Mar to 15-Mar | Aberystwyth Arts Centre | Aberystwyth | fb | tw | ig |
| 16-Mar | The Hafren | Newtown | fb | tw | |
| 18-Mar to 19-Mar | Theatr Clwyd | Mold | fb | tw | ig |
| 24-Mar | Landmark Theatre | Ilfracombe | fb | tw | |
| 25-Mar | Theatre Royal Bath | Bath | fb | tw | ig |
| 29-Mar to 30-Mar | Maddermarket Theatre | Norwich | fb | tw | |
| 02-Apr | The Leas Cliff Hall | Folkestone | fb | tw | |
| 05-Apr | Chichester Minerva Theatre | Chichester | fb | tw | ig |
| 10-Apr | Nuffield Theatre | Southampton | fb | tw | |
| 12-Apr to 13-Apr | Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds | Bury St Edmunds | fb | tw | ig |
| 14-Apr | Royal & Derngate | Northampton | fb | tw | ig |
| 16-Apr | Frinton Summer Theatre | Frinton-On-Sea | fb | tw | |
| 17-Apr to 18-Apr | Colchester Mercury | Colchester | fb | tw | ig |
| 20-Apr | Belgrade Theatre Coventry | Coventry | fb | tw | ig |
| 24-Apr to 25-Apr | Norwich Playhouse | Norwich | fb | tw | ig |
| 27-Apr to 28-Apr | St George’s Guildhall | King’s Lynn | |||
| 30-Apr to 01-May | Oxford Playhouse | Oxford | fb | tw | ig |
| 03-May to 04-May | Jersey Opera House | Jersey | fb | tw | ig |
| 06-May | Aylesbury Waterside Theatre | Aylesbury | fb | tw | ig |
| 07-May to 08-May | Cheltenham Everyman Theatre | Cheltenham | fb | tw | ig |
| 10-May to 11-May | Cambridge Arts Theatre | Cambridge | fb | tw | ig |
| 13-May to 14-May | Wigan Little Theatre | Wigan | fb | tw | |
| 15-May | The Forum Theatre Romiley | Stockport | fb | tw | |
| 17-May to 18-May | Liverpool Playhouse | Liverpool | fb | tw | ig |
| 19-May | Warwick Arts Centre | Coventry | fb | tw | ig |
| 20-May | Blackpool Grand | Blackpool | fb | tw | ig |
| 23-May to 23-May | Burnley Youth Theatre | Burnley | fb | tw | ig |
| 25-May | Albert Halls Theatre | Bolton | fb | tw | ig |
| 28-May | The Dukes | Lancaster | fb | tw | ig |
| 31-May | Buxton Opera House | Buxton | fb | tw | ig |
| 01-Jun to 02-Jun | Curve Theatre | Leicester | fb | tw | ig |
| 03-Jun | Sheffield Crucible | Sheffield | fb | tw | ig |
| 04-Jun | Theatre Royal Wakefield | Wakefield | fb | tw | ig |
| 05-Jun to 06-Jun | HOME Manchester | Manchester | fb | tw | ig |
| 09-Jun | Forum Theatre Billingham | Stockton-on-Tees | fb | tw | |
| 11-Jun | The Civic | Barnsley | fb | tw | ig |
| 12-Jun | CAST | Doncaster | fb | tw | ig |
| 14-Jun | The Georgian Theatre Royal | Richmond | fb | tw | ig |
| 16-Jun | Hull New Theatre | Hull | fb | tw | ig |
| 17-Jun | Grand Opera House | York | fb | tw | |
| 21-Jun to 22-Jun | Birmingham Rep | Birmingham | fb | tw | ig |
| 25-Jun to 26-Jun | Nottingham Playhouse | Nottingham | fb | tw | ig |
| 27-Jun to 28-Jun | Cardiff New Theatre | Cardiff | fb | tw | ig |
| 01-Jul | Northcott Theatre | Exeter | fb | tw | ig |
| 02-Jul | Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre For The Arts | Poole | fb | tw | ig |
| 03-Jul | Marine Theatre | Lyme Regis | fb | tw | |
| 05-Jul | The Watermill Theatre | Newbury | fb | tw | ig |
| 15-Jul to 19-Jul | Theatre Royal Brighton | Brighton | fb | tw | ig |
| 21-Jul | RST & Swan Theatre | Stratford upon Avon | fb | tw | ig |
| 25-Jul to 26-Jul | Lyric | Belfast | fb | tw | ig |
| 27-Jul | Waterside | Derry | fb | tw | |
| 29-Jul | The Braid Arts Centre | Ballymena | fb | ||
| 31-Jul to 01-Aug | Theatre at The Mill | Newtonabbey | fb | tw | |
| 09-Aug | Dundee Rep Theatre | Dundee | fb | tw | ig |
| 11-Aug | Pitlochry Festival Theatre | Pitlochry | fb | tw | ig |
| 12-Aug | Eden Court | Inverness | fb | tw | |
| 14-Aug | Tivoli | Aberdeen | fb | tw | ig |
| 18-Aug | Newcastle Theatre Royal | Newcastle upon Tyne | fb | tw | ig |
| 20-Aug | Theatre by the Lake | Keswick | fb | tw | ig |
| 22-Aug to 25-Aug | Edinburgh International Festival | Edinburgh | fb | tw | ig |
| 28-Aug | Orkney Arts Theatre | Orkney | fb | ||
| 15-Sep | National Theatre, Olivier | London | fb | tw | ig |
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