Ian McKellen on Stage: Tolkien, Shakespeare and You!
UK Tour 25 January - 15 September 2019
UK Tour by Date
UK Tour by City
One Night Only at The Hudson Theatre, Broadway
West End Limited Run 20 September 2019- 5 January 2020
I celebrated my 80th birthday by touring a new solo show to theatres I know well and a few that I didn't. The show starts with Gandalf and will probably end with an invitation to act with me on stage. In-between there are anecdotes and acting. I opened at my local arts centre in January 2019 and ended up by August in Orkney. Then I took it to London's West End for a limited run.
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.
London Reviews
Photo credit Oliver Rosser, Feast Creative
Tour by Date
Tour by City
| Dates | Theatre | City |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Aug | Tivoli | Aberdeen |
| 14-Mar to 15-Mar | Aberystwyth Arts Centre | Aberystwyth |
| 06-May | Aylesbury Waterside Theatre | Aylesbury |
| 29-Jul | The Braid Arts Centre | Ballymena |
| 11-Jun | The Civic | Barnsley |
| 24-Mar | Theatre Royal Bath | Bath |
| 25-Jul to 26-Jul | Lyric | Belfast |
| 21-Jun to 22-Jun | Birmingham Rep | Birmingham |
| 20-May | Blackpool Grand | Blackpool |
| 25-May | Albert Halls Theatre | Bolton |
| 15-Jul to 19-Jul | Theatre Royal Brighton | Brighton |
| 19-Feb to 20-Feb | Bristol Old Vic | Bristol |
| 23-May to 23-May | Burnley Youth Theatre | Burnley |
| 12-Apr to 13-Apr | Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds | Bury St Edmunds |
| 31-May | Buxton Opera House | Buxton |
| 10-May to 11-May | Cambridge Arts Theatre | Cambridge |
| 27-Jun to 28-Jun | Cardiff New Theatre | Cardiff |
| 07-May to 08-May | Cheltenham Everyman Theatre | Cheltenham |
| 05-Apr | Chichester Minerva Theatre | Chichester |
| 17-Apr to 18-Apr | Colchester Mercury | Colchester |
| 20-Apr | Belgrade Theatre Coventry | Coventry |
| 19-May | Warwick Arts Centre | Coventry |
| 27-Jul | Waterside | Derry |
| 12-Jun | CAST | Doncaster |
| 09-Aug | Dundee Rep Theatre | Dundee |
| 22-Aug to 25-Aug | Edinburgh International Festival | Edinburgh |
| 01-Jul | Northcott Theatre | Exeter |
| 02-Apr | The Leas Cliff Hall | Folkestone |
| 16-Apr | Frinton Summer Theatre | Frinton-On-Sea |
| 24-Feb to 25-Feb | The Queens Theatre | Hornchurch |
| 16-Jun | Hull New Theatre | Hull |
| 24-Mar | Landmark Theatre | Ilfracombe |
| 12-Aug | Eden Court | Inverness |
| 08-Mar to 09-Mar | Ipswich New Wolsey | Ipswich |
| 03-May to 04-May | Jersey Opera House | Jersey |
| 20-Aug | Theatre by the Lake | Keswick |
| 27-Apr to 28-Apr | St Georges Guildhall | King's Lynn |
| 01-Feb | Rose Theatre | Kingston |
| 28-May | The Dukes | Lancaster |
| 01-Jun to 02-Jun | Curve Theatre | Leicester |
| 17-May to 18-May | Liverpool Playhouse | Liverpool |
| 15-Sep | National Theatre, Olivier | London |
| 17-Feb | Old Vic | London |
| 15-Feb | Piccadilly Theatre | London |
| 10-Mar | Theatre Royal Stratford East | London |
| 22-Feb | Royal Court | London |
| 26-Feb | RADA (Students only) | London |
| 07-Mar to 07-Mar | Duke of York's Theatre | London |
| 06-Feb | Above The Stag Theatre | London |
| 03-Mar | Lyric Hammersmith | London |
| 01-Mar | Donmar Warehouse (Students only) | London |
| 11-Feb | Arts Theatre | London |
| 10-Feb | Hampstead Theatre | London |
| 05-Feb | Sands Films | London |
| 04-Feb | Richmond Theatre | London |
| 03-Feb | Bridge Theatre | London |
| 30-Jan | Young Vic | London |
| 28-Jan | National Theatre, Lyttelton | London |
| 25-Jan to 26-Jan | The Space | London |
| 04-Mar | Questors Ealing | London |
| 03-Jul | Marine Theatre | Lyme Regis |
| 05-Jun to 06-Jun | HOME Manchester | Manchester |
| 18-Mar to 19-Mar | Theatr Clwyd | Mold |
| 05-Jul | The Watermill Theatre | Newbury |
| 18-Aug | Newcastle Theatre Royal | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| 31-Jul to 01-Aug | Theatre at The Mill | Newtonabbey |
| 16-Mar | The Hafren | Newtown |
| 14-Apr | Royal & Derngate | Northampton |
| 24-Apr to 25-Apr | Norwich Playhouse | Norwich |
| 29-Mar to 30-Mar | Maddermarket Theatre | Norwich |
| 25-Jun to 26-Jun | Nottingham Playhouse | Nottingham |
| 28-Aug | Orkney Arts Theatre | Orkney |
| 30-Apr to 01-May | Oxford Playhouse | Oxford |
| 11-Aug | Pitlochry Festival Theatre | Pitlochry |
| 02-Jul | Lighthouse, Poole's Centre For The Arts | Poole |
| 14-Jun | The Georgian Theatre Royal | Richmond |
| 03-Jun | Sheffield Crucible | Sheffield |
| 10-Apr | Nuffield Theatre | Southampton |
| 15-May | The Forum Theatre Romiley | Stockport |
| 09-Jun | Forum Theatre Billingham | Stockton-on-Tees |
| 21-Jul | RST & Swan Theatre | Stratford upon Avon |
| 13-Mar | Swansea Grand Theatre | Swansea |
| 04-Jun | Theatre Royal Wakefield | Wakefield |
| 13-May to 14-May | Wigan Little Theatre | Wigan |
| 12-Feb to 13-Feb | Theatre Royal Windsor | Windsor |
| 17-Jun | Grand Opera House | York |