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  • Sam Wanamaker

    Sam Wanamaker discusses the theater ; part 1

    Dec. 4, 1964

    Sam Wanamaker talks about the curtain of a stage being a barrier between the set and the audience. Wanaker says that with theater today, there are more theaters in the round and more thrusts of ramps built into the audience, so that the audience can feel they are a part of the production of the play.

  • A tribute to Sam Wanamaker

    Dec. 1993

    Actor and director Sam Wanamaker died in December of 1993. In an interview in 1980, he discussed his love of Shakespeare's plays. Wanamaker's mission in life was to recreate, reconstruct and revive The Globe Theatre as it was in Shakespeare's days.

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