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American actor Sam Wanamaker’s 19-year dream to rebuild William Shakespeare’s famed Globe Theater along the River Thames neared realization in a ground-breaking ceremony Saturday, the Bard’s 424th birthday.
April 25, 1988
Shakespeare’s Globe to name new stage after founder Sam Wanamaker
Nov. 28, 2012
Shakespeare’s Globe -- the famous outdoor theater venue in London -- will honor its late founder, the once-blacklisted American actor-director Sam Wanamaker, by naming a new indoor stage after him.
Actor Sam Wanamaker’s dream of re-creating the Bard’s Globe Theatre comes true four years after his death.
June 14, 1997
Sam Wanamaker, whose enduring vision of restoring Shakespeare’s Globe Theater was nearing reality, died Saturday at his London home.
Dec. 19, 1993
Already an acclaimed actress, Zoe Wanamaker, child of Sam, deepens her reputation with an electric ‘Electra.’
March 16, 1999
American actor-director Sam Wanamaker today won a 17-year struggle to rebuild William Shakespeare’s Globe theater at its original London site along the Thames River.
June 25, 1986
Wanamaker Receives Royal Honor: Sam Wanamaker, who is heading up the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre near its original site along the Thames River, has been awarded the Royal Society of the Arts’ Benjamin Franklin Medal.
April 24, 1990
American actor and director Sam Wanamaker has won a 17-year fight to rebuild William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on its original London site.
Feb. 4, 1987
Sam Wanamaker is not your typical opera director.
Oct. 10, 1986