Entertainment & Arts
Already an acclaimed actress, Zoe Wanamaker, child of Sam, deepens her reputation with an electric ‘Electra.’
March 16, 1999
Actor Sam Wanamaker’s dream of re-creating the Bard’s Globe Theatre comes true four years after his death.
June 14, 1997
The strength of this ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ drama derives much less from its script than from performances of the actresses.
Jan. 28, 1996
Stage star Zoe Wanamaker, the toast of New York via her starring run in “Electra,” talks about theater today.
March 15, 1999
“The Countess Alice” is a good way to spend 90 minutes.
Jan. 23, 1993
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.
Nov. 28, 2012
Shakespeare’s Globe to name new stage after founder Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker, whose enduring vision of restoring Shakespeare’s Globe Theater was nearing reality, died Saturday at his London home.
Dec. 19, 1993
William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre died with a whoosh on the afternoon of June 29, 1613: A stage cannon saluting the king’s entry in “Henry VIII” set the thatched roof ablaze.
Dec. 10, 1995
Television
In a bountiful collection of venerable British actors who are mostly octogenarians, “Masterpiece Theatre’s” two-part “Memento Mori” levels a withering attack on ageism in the least-mawkish and most-jocular portrait of dotty old characters you are likely to see together on one screen.
Oct. 24, 1992