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Robert Stanton (actor)	In March and April 2012, he appeared in the Eugene O'Neill play Strange Interlude at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, in the role of Charles Marsden.
Alvin Rakoff	His theatre work ranges from Hamlet at Bristol Old Vic to Charity Cruise performance at Royal Albert Hall before Her Majesty the Queen and continues with his association with The Mill Theatre, Sonning by directing productions of Separate Tables with Anthony Valentine and his own adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep in 2011.
Jean Forbes-Robertson	In 1932, she played the dual role of Viola/Cesario in Twelfth Night at the New Theatre, directed by Robert Atkins, and appeared in Strange Orchestra by Rodney Ackland, directed by John Gielgud at St. Martin's Theatre.
Neve Campbell	In March 2006, Campbell made her West End theatre debut, in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre.
Peter Stephens (actor)	On 6 August 1964, Stephens opened at the New Arts Theatre in the London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's play Mr Whatnot, portraying Herbert the Butler, amongst a cast which included Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Stevens and Judy Cornwell.
John Glover (actor)	He most recently played the role of'' Uncle Ben'' in the 2012 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols.
Mike Westbrook	His work for the theatre began with Adrian Mitchell's Tyger a celebration of William Blake, staged by the Royal National Theatre in 1971.
Lyndon Brook	In 1951, Brook was asked by Laurence Olivier to join his company at the St James's Theatre in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra.
Brendon Burns (comedian)	Also at the 2007 Fringe, Brendon Burns appeared alongside Adam Hills and Sammy J in a stage version of Breaker Morant by The Comedians' Theatre Company directed by Phil Nichol.
Lynn Redgrave	With her sister Vanessa as Olga, she returned to the London stage playing Masha in Three Sisters in 1991 at the Queen's Theatre, London, and later played the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ?
Bill Alexander (director)	In his first year (1977) Alexander worked as assistant to Trevor Nunn and John Barton.
Dennis Kelly	In 2010 Kelly returned to the Hampstead Theatre once more for his response to Shakespeare's King Lear, The Gods Weep starring Jeremy Irons, with mixed reviews.
Margit Carstensen	php?id t041 In 2008 she appeared in the Schauspielhaus Bochum (Playhouse Bochum), in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Vivien Merchant	Merchant took the role of Madame in the Greenwich Theatre revival of Jean Genet's The Maids partnering Glenda Jackson and Susannah York : this was filmed in 1974 by Christopher Miles.
Samuel Adamson	He adapted Bernhard Studlar's Vienna Dreaming at the National Theatre Studio and Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi for Dumbfounded Theatre at the Arcola Theatre in 2005 and also on BBC Radio 3.
Margaret Morris (dancer)	In 1900 she joined the Ben Greet Shakespearian Company and played' Puck' in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Keith David	In 1980 -- 81, David honed his craft touring the country with John Houseman's The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Matheson Lang	In 1914, he and Britton successfully produced The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet at the Old Vic.
Ruth Negga	In 2010, she played Ophelia in the National Theatre's production of Hamlet.
Arthur Lucan	Lucan, as' Old Mother Riley' was last seen on stage at the Theatre Royal, Barnsley on 14 May 1954.
Toby Stephens	In the summer of 2009, Stephens returned to the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse production of Ibsen's A Doll's House alongside Gillian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston.
Vanessa Redgrave	Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards.
Natasha Richardson	Her first professional work in London's West End was in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 1985.
Edward Bond	The Lyric Hammersmith presented the first London production of Bond's Saved for 27 years in autumn 2011 in a production by the venue's Artistic Director Sean Holmes.
Jonathan Kent (director)	On 9 July 2007 it was announced that Kent had been invited to direct three plays at the Haymarket Theatre from September 2007 as a means of re-invigorating the West End theatre scene.
Charles Dennis	In 1963, Dennis made his stage debut at the Red Barn Theatre in Jackson's Point, Ontario playing Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace and Simon Bliss in Hay Fever.
Michael Blakemore	He made his first professional stage appearance in 1952 at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield, as the doctor in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Tony Church	In 1988 Church took leading parts in Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, once again under the direction of Peter Hall, at London's National Theatre.
Henry Kemble	He then took the part of Dr Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor before joining John Hare's company at the Royal Court Theatre in 1875, where he played Dr Penguin in J. Palgrave Simpson's A Scrap of Paper.
Cyril Nri	After drama school at the Bristol Old Vic Cyril started acting life at The Royal Shakespeare Company where his first role was Lucius in Ron Daniel's 1982 production of Julius Caesar.
Richard McCabe	Most recently he was Ben Jonson in the Chichester production of Edward Bond's play'' Bingo'' ('' Bingo : scenes of money and death'', 1973).
Richard Griffiths	On stage, in 1985 -- 86 he performed the role of Verdi in Julian Mitchell's After Aida, in Wales and at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
Hattie Morahan	In July 2005 she appeared again at the National in Nick Dear's Power, staged in the Cottesloe Theatre and also won acclaim at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in September 2005 playing Viola in Ian Brown's production of Twelfth Night.
Barbara Jefford	The last of these was Michael Grandage's Richard III with Kenneth Branagh in 2002, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield in which she played Queen Margaret, opposite Derek Jacobi for the second time.
Antony Sher	In 2005, Sher directed Breakfast With Mugabe at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Andrea Riseborough	In 2007 she won the Ian Charleson Award for her performances as Isabella in Measure For Measure and as the title character in Miss Julie both directed by Sir Peter Hall.
Isla Blair	She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 1971 season, during which she portrayed Emilia in The Man of Mode and Aglaya in Subject to Fits.
Patrick Page	As a member of The Shakespeare Theatre Company he received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (Will Award) along with other company members in 2007.
Sybil Thorndike	In 1908, she was spotted by the playwright George Bernard Shaw when she understudied the leading role of Candida in a tour directed by Shaw himself.
Walter Starkie	In light of his previous successes at the Abbey Theatre the rejection caused much controversy and O'Casey severed his relations with the theatre and took the play to London where it premiered on 11 October 1929 at the Apollo Theatre with Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald under the direction of Raymond Massey.
Charles Laughton	He returned to London for the 1933 -- 34 Old Vic season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles (as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest) and also as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Tattle in Love for Love.
Paul Scofield	Scofield began his stage career in 1940 with a debut performance in Desire Under the Elms at the Westminster Theatre, and was soon being compared to Laurence Olivier.
Marc Sinden	In 1998 he resumed his independent career as Marc Sinden Productions and produced and co-directed Shakespeare's Villains (Haymarket) with Steven Berkoff, which was nominated for a Society Of London Theatre Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Alec Guinness	On 13 July 1953, Guinness spoke the first lines of the first play produced by the festival, Shakespeare's Richard III :'' Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York.''
Morven Christie	In 2008 Christie was cast in Sam Mendes' first Bridge Project theatre company, playing Anya in Tom Stoppard's new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, and Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale which finished at The Old Vic in London, after a sellout run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and a world tour.
Neil Pearson	In 2007 he assisted with fundraising to renovate Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
Joseph Anthony	Joseph Anthony made his New York City directorial debut in April 1948 directing a production of Celebration at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
Helena Bonham Carter	She played Olivia in Trevor Nunn's film version of Twelfth Night in 1996.
Jeremy Isaacs	The channel commissioned Michael Elliott's production of King Lear (1983) with Laurence Olivier in the title role and Isaacs re-commissioned a number of programmes from his time at Granada including What the Papers Say.
David Paisley	In 2010 Paisley made his directorial debut with the play' The Lasses, O' at the Edinburgh Festival.
Nicholas Farrell	Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet, in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Michael Annals	Michael Annals began his career in 1961 by designing the sets and costumes for the Old Vic company's Soviet Union tour of Macbeth and their production of Dr Faustus at the Edinburgh Festival.
Dorothy Loudon	Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols.
Holly Quin-Ankrah	Quin-Ankrah's theatre credits include playing the role of Katie in a 2009 stage musical adaptation of the Willy Russell drama Our Day Out at the Royal Court, Liverpool.
John Simm	In 1996, he made his professional stage debut in the Simon Bent play Goldhawk Road at the Bush Theatre, directed by Paul Miller.
Nigel Harman	During May and June 2010, Harman appeared in the stage production of True West at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
Sally Dexter	Dexter starred as the White Witch in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Threesixty Theatre in Kensington Gardens until 9 September 2012.
Simon Russell Beale	In the spring of 2009, Beale and Sam Mendes collaborated on The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard, in which Beale played Leontes and Lopakhin respectively, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, later transferring to the Old Vic Theatre.
Ian Brooker (actor)	In 2005, Ian appeared as George Silverlock, the Master of the Hastings Workhouse in Claire Luckham's play Kitty and Kate -- a co-production for the New Victoria Theatre, Stoke and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
John Osborne	Osborne tried his hand at writing plays, co-writing his first, The Devil Inside Him, with his mentor Stella Linden, who then directed it at the Theatre Royal in Huddersfield in 1950.
Lisa Eichhorn	She returned to the Royal Exchange Manchester in 2004 to play Ouisa in Six Degrees of Separation, and played Joy Gresham opposite Julian Glover's C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands at Salisbury Playhouse.
Tony Vincent	When American Idiot opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre (opening April 20, 2010) Tony Vincent received considerable praise for his portrayal of St. Jimmy.
Liviu Ciulei	He made his theater debut in 1946, as Puck in an Odeon Theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Russell Thorndike	In 1922 he was applauded for his performance in Henrik Ibsen's first professional production of Peer Gynt at the Old Vic.
George Sutton Titheradge	He made his first appearance on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, subsequently supported Charles Dillon in Shakespearian plays, and in 1873 played the junior lead at Bristol.
Jonathan Pryce	In 2009 he appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in the title role of Dimetos written by Athol Fugard, and later that year made a sentimental journey back to Liverpool to appear as Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker directed by veteran director Christopher Morahan.
Tom Irwin (actor)	In 2002 he played the part of Gerry in London's West End production of Up for Grabs with Madonna.
Jan Maxwell	In 2008 she appeared Off-Broadway with the Potomac Theatre Project/NYC in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution and was nominated for a Drama Desk and NYITT award.
David Suchet	In 2007 at the Chichester Festival Theatre, he played Cardinal Benelli in The Last Confession, about the death of Pope John Paul I.
Anya Reiss	She took part in a one off event at the Old Vic Theatre directed by Danny Boyle in support of Dramatic Need in 2010.
Mary Beth Peil	In May 1999, Peil appeared in the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of the Noël Coward play Hay Fever.
Lucy May Barker	Also in 2010, in the season at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Barker played Mercy Lewis in The Crucible, starring alongside Oliver Ford Davies, Emma Cunniffe, Susan Engel and Patrick Godfrey.
Richard Temple (bass-baritone)	He also played Northumberland in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of William Shakespeare's Richard II at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1903.
James Robertson Anderson	Before the theatre was burned to the ground in January 1865, Anderson produced one of his own plays - the Scottish Chief, and he played two parts in his production of Henry VI, Part 2.
Laurence Olivier	In 1945, Olivier and Richardson were made honorary Lieutenants with ENSA, and engaged in a six-week tour of Europe for the army, performing Arms and the Man, Peer Gynt and Richard III for the troops, followed by a visit to the Comédie-Française in Paris, the first time a foreign company had been invited to play on its famous stage.
Stephanie March	In 1999, March made her Broadway debut in the highly acclaimed production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, opposite Brian Dennehy.
David Tennant	In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.
Kathleen Battle	She also received the Laurence Olivier Award (1985) for her stage performance as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera House, London.
Nanette Comstock	Comstock supported Kate Claxton at Madison Square Theatre on, August 10, 1889 in a stage adaption of the John Strange Winter novel, Bootle's Baby.
Glen Byam Shaw	After appearing in Michel Saint-Denis's short season at the Phoenix Theatre in 1938, his final role was Horatio to Gielgud's Hamlet, both in London and at Elsinore Castle.
Edith Evans	In 1964 in a production for the National Theatre, she returned to the role of Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, heading a cast that in Coward's words'' could play the Albanian telephone directory''.
Sebastian Shaw (actor)	In 1965, British theatre director William Gaskill was named artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, where he hoped to re-establish a repertoire.
Scarlett Alice Johnson	In 2005, she played Juliet in an open air run of Romeo and Juliet at Stafford Castle and received favourable notices including in The Stage.
Hannah Murray	Following Skins in May 2008, Murray made her stage debut as Mia in the critically acclaimed That Face, a West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre.
Daphne Rubin-Vega	In spring 2012, Rubin-Vega returned to Broadway in a new revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, playing the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Blair Underwood as Stanley.
Catherine Neilson	On stage, Neilson starred as Christie in Traps by Caryl Churchill, at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London, opposite Tim Pigott-Smith, in 1977.
Wil Johnson	In 2004, Johnson played the title character in the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company's Othello.
John Woodvine	Woodvine also had a long career with the Royal Shakespeare Company, having appeared in 1976 opposite Ian McKellen and Judi Dench as Banquo in the acclaimed Trevor Nunn production of Macbeth, which was later recorded for television.
Cush Jumbo	Jumbo played Constance Neville in She Stoops to Conquer at The National Theatre in 2012 and Mark Antony in an all female production of Julius Caesar (play) at the Donmar Warehouse for which she received a nomination for an Olivier Award.
Lillian Gish	With her debut in talkies only moderately successful, she acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in roles as varied as Ophelia in Guthrie McClintic's landmark 1936 production of Hamlet (with John Gielgud and Judith Anderson) and Marguerite in a limited run of La Dame aux Camélias.
Jessie Buckley	In the 2013 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe she played Miranda in The Tempest, and singer Arabella Hunt and Kate in Samuel Adamson's Gabriel.
John Thomson (comedian)	In 1996 he appeared opposite Maureen Lipman as Bob Acres in The Rivals at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
Michael Jayston	He appeared as Gratiano opposite Laurence Olivier as Shylock in the National Theatre's film The Merchant of Venice (1974).
Samantha Bond	In the West End she starred in David Leveaux's production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre (2009).
Eric Maxon	In a 1916 season at the (New Amsterdam Theatre he appeared in Henry VIII, The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Susannah Fielding	In 2011 she plays Portia in Rupert Goold's production of the Merchant of Venice for the RSC alongside Sir Patrick Stewart.
Miranda Raison	From October 2012, for one month only, Raison starred in The River a new play by Jez Butterworth at the Royal Court Theatre (Jerwood) alongside Dominic West.
Lindsay Farris	Farris will be reprising his critically acclaimed role of the Danish Prince in Sport For Jove Theatre Company's return season of Hamlet in May 2013.
Morven Christie	In 2006 she played Juliet and Hero for the Royal Shakespeare Company in their Complete Works season.
Christopher Biggins	In December 2013 he will be filling the role of Dame Trot alongside Bob Carolgees in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk at New Theatre, Hull.