The current artistic director and chief executive of the Shakespeare's Globe, Dominic Dromgoole and Neil Constable are also newcomers to the list.
Theatre-goers named Anne Boleyn the winner, the English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production.
Just beyond the Tate Modern is Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a 1997 reconstruction of the open-air playhouse where Shakespeare once worked.
On one of my final days in England, I made my way on blistered foot to the south bank of the Thames, past the site of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, to the place where my grandparents had made their balloon trip.
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Tom Bird, the Globe to Globe festival director, spent months searching the world for Shakespeare performers.
To help out, Dominic Dromgoole, the new director of Shakespeare's Globe, in London, which has hitherto been devoted exclusively to the Bard and his contemporaries, is planning to stage two brand new plays this year out of its total of six.
Fiona Banks, head of learning at Globe Education at Shakespeare s Globe, in Southwark, London, said the initiative would help "students engage with Shakespeare's plays - as plays - to be experienced practically and through performance".
Furthermore we plan to see some West End shows - Derren Brown's Svengali and musicals - and a Shakespeare play at the Globe.
Visitors curious about theatrical cross-dressing can cross the Thames to see a modern example at Shakespeare's Globe, a reconstruction of the Tudor-era original.
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The all-female production follows closely after and all-male version of both Twelfth Night and Richard III, recently transferred to the West End from Shakespeare's Globe.
The formation of the Globe Young Players is in the tradition of the child actor companies of Shakespeare's time.
Taken together, it feels like we're heading toward a 21st-century version of Shakespeare's Globe: Welcome to the free-for-all!
In 2011, former Doctor Who stars Catherine Tate and David Tennant took on the roles at Wyndham's Theatre at the same time as an acclaimed production at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Eve Best and Charles Edwards.
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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.
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In other words, Gwyneth Paltrow ("Shakespeare in Love") might have gotten teary-eyed when she won the Golden Globe for best actress this year, but she will become the leading actress of her generation if she takes home the Oscar.
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Built 200 yards from the site of the original theatre where many of Shakespeare's most famous plays made their debut, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, the Globe is putting on four of the Bard's plays this year in celebration of the anniversary.
Stephen Fry makes his official return to the West End stage as Malvolio in an all-male production of Twelfth Night, a transfer from Shakespeare's Globe alongside Richard III.
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