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Julie Taymor

March 2021

  • Julianne Moore as Gloria Steinem in The Glorias

    Enter a feminist superhero … without the catfights and ass-kicking

    Director Julie Taymor tells how her new film depicts women’s rights pioneer Gloria Steinem, minus the stereotypes

October 2019

  • Rafiki, played by Brown Lindiwe Mkhize, in Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre, London.

    How we made
    Julie Taymor: how we made The Lion King musical

    ‘The sheer idea of having a stampede on stage was exciting – the bigger the risk, the bigger the payoff’

February 2016

  • Cutting edge: Laura Lees, Sam Alexander and Douglas Hodge in Titus Andronicus at the Globe in 2006.

    The debate
    Should our theatres do more to challenge audiences?

    Matt Trueman and Mark Shenton
    Sarah Kane’s ultra-violent Cleansed left them reeling in the stalls at the National Theatre last week. Was that a rare exception on an otherwise tame British stage?

June 2015

  • Julie Taymor: 'I think it takes so much for a woman to get to that place that they have to have a passion or a story they really want to tell'.

    Lion King director Julie Taymor: 'When women fail, they don’t get another chance as easily'

    After a painful failure with Spider-Man, Taymor has bounced back with stage and now film versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here she talks about why there are still few female directors, and why she won’t do Hamlet

January 2013

  • Film and stage director Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor stages directorial comeback with A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Tony award-winning director to open new off-Broadway theatre with 'visceral' version of Shakespeare's play

November 2011

  • Julie Taymor, director and co-author of Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

    Julie Taymor sues Spider-Man producers over unpaid royalties

    Sacked director and co-author wants more than $1m in compensation for work on Broadway's blockbuster musical

April 2011

  • Bono with Spider-Man director Julie Taymor

    Theatre blog
    Julie Taymor's Spider-Man was visionary, not villainous

    Christopher Shinn: She has been forced to step down as director, but in Spider-Man Julie Taymor created a brilliant critique of US grandiosity

March 2011

  • spider-man taymor

    Tangled web: Director of Spider-Man musical is forced out

    Cost overruns, technical hang-ups, accidents and bad reviews have allegedly seen Julie Taymor asked to leave the production
  • 2010, THE TEMPEST

    The Tempest – review

    Helen Mirren is the only reason for seeing Julie Taymor's take on Shakespeare, writes Philip French

  • The Tempest

    The Tempest – review

    Helen Mirren is the feminised "Prospera" in Julie Taymor's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest and her forceful performance makes it worth seeing, says Peter Bradshaw

January 2011

  • The Lion King

    The Lion King: a feast for the eyes, if little else

    Michael Billington: The plot is thin, the musical numbers bland – but Julie Taymor's production remains kaleidoscopically brilliant

December 2010

  • Victoria Wood, comedian

    TV tonight
    TV highlights 22 December

    Christmas With Gordon | Victoria Wood With All the Trimmings | Panorama: Supermarkets | Close Up With Sir Peter Hall and Julie Taymor | Ugly Betty | Little Crackers

July 2010

  • Anthony Hopkins as Titus Andronicus in Julie Taymor's 1999 adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

    Julie Taymor's The Tempest to close Venice film festival

    Director's second Shakespeare reimagining will feature Ben Whishaw as Ariel and Helen Mirren as a female Prospero

June 2010

  • Frida

    Reel history
    Frida: raises an eyebrow

    Reel history: There's a lot of painting by numbers in Julie Taymor's 2002 biopic of the radical Mexican Frida Kahlo, starring Salma Hayek. But when the facts are this colourful, why take artistic licence?

October 2008

  • Helen Mirren

    Helen Mirren leads the cast of Taymor's Tempest

    Julie Taymor has changed the gender of the central character to accommodate the British actress in her latest Shakespeare adaptation

October 1999

  • The cat's whiskers

  • This lioness could change your life

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