Plays by Date

June 1950 - June 1958: Schoolboy Acting

October 1958 - August 1961: Cambridge University Undergraduate Productions

September 1961 - June 1962: Belgrade Theatre Company, Coventry

September 1962 - October 1963: Arts Theatre Company, Ipswich

December 1963 - June 1964: Nottingham Playhouse

September 1964 - February 1968: London and Broadway

November 1968 - July 1972: Touring, Directing, London

August 1972 - May 1974: The Actors' Company

August 1974 - January 1976: Royal Shakespeare Company

March 1976 - April 1978: Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford), Acting Shakespeare

July 1978 - April 1979: Small Scale Tour

May 1979 - February 1984: Bent, Acting Shakespeare, Amadeus

April 1984 - August 1986: Royal National Theatre

February 1987 - December 1989: Acting Shakespeare, Henceforward..., Othello

January 1990 - September 1992: Richard III and the Royal National Theatre

October 1993 - June 1997: A Knight Out

September 1997 - September 1998: Royal National Theatre

October 1998 - February 1999: West Yorkshire Playhouse

January 2001 - July 2006: Dance of Death, Aladdin

March 2007 - June 2012: King Lear, The Seagull, Waiting for Godot, The Syndicate

August 2013- December 2016: No Man's Land, Waiting for Godot

2017 - 2020: Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others and You; King Lear; Ian McKellen on Stage

2021 - 2023: Hamlet/The Cherry Orchard (Windsor); Hamlet (Edinburgh); Mother Goose; Frank and Percy

2024: Player Kings

Writings by Ian McKellen