Editing Patrick Stewart (section)

===Theatre (1990–present)===
After ''The Next Generation'' began, Stewart soon found that he missed acting on the stage.{{r|appleyard20071104}} Although he remained associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the lengthy filming for the series had prevented him from participating in most other works, leaving a "gaping hole" of many years in his [[Curriculum vitae|CV]] as a Shakespearean actor, causing him to miss opportunities to play such notable roles as [[Prince Hamlet|Hamlet]], [[Romeo Montague|Romeo]], and [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]].{{r|appleyard20071104}}{{r|lyall20080127}} Instead, Stewart began writing [[one-man show]]s that he performed in California universities and acting schools. One of these—a version of [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' in which he portrayed all 40-plus characters—became ideal for him as an actor as well, because of its limited performing schedule.<ref name="collins19911215">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/15/theater/theater-a-voice-that-launched-a-thousand-trips.html |title=A Voice That Launched a Thousand Trips |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 1991 |access-date=28 April 2011 |last=Collins |first=Glenn}}</ref>

[[File:Patrick Stewart signing autographs.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Stewart signing autographs following a production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|RSC]] in July 2008]]
In 1991, Stewart performed it on Broadway,{{r|appleyard20071104}} receiving a nomination for that year's [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dramadesk.com/1991_1992dd.html |title=1991–1992 38th Drama Desk Awards |access-date=1 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080704130634/http://www.dramadesk.com/1991_1992dd.html |archive-date=4 July 2008}}</ref> He staged encore Broadway performances in 1992 and 1994, with the 1993 run held in London and the 1996 production in Los Angeles. Stewart brought the show back to Broadway in 2001, with all proceeds going to charity – and the show of 28 December's revenue, specifically, going to the [[September 11 attacks|11 September]] campaign of the [[Actors Fund of America]].<ref>{{cite web |author-link1=Robert Simonson |last1=Simonson |first1=Robert |title=Patrick Stewart Returns to Broadway with One-Man A Christmas Carol, Dec. 24–30 |url=https://www.playbill.com/news/article/patrick-stewart-returns-to-broadway-with-one-man-a-christmas-carol-dec.-24--99806 |work=[[Playbill]] |date=17 November 2001 |access-date=30 March 2018}}</ref> A 23-day run re-opened in London's West End in December 2005. For his performances in this play, Stewart has received the [[Drama Desk Award]] for Best Solo Performance in 1992 and the [[Laurence Olivier Award]] for Best Entertainment for Solo Performance in 1994. He was also the [[Theatrical producer|co-producer]] of the show, through the company he set up for the purpose: Camm Lane Productions, a reference to his birthplace in Camm Lane, Mirfield.

[[File:9.24.13WaitingForGodot-NoMansLandPressJunketByLuigiNovi8.jpg|thumb|Stewart with actors [[Ian McKellen]] and [[Billy Crudup]] at a September 2013 press event at [[Sardi's]] restaurant for ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' and ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]'']]
Shakespeare roles during this period included [[Prospero]] in Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]'', on Broadway in 1995, a role he would reprise in [[Rupert Goold]]'s 2006 production of ''The Tempest'' as part of the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]'s Complete Works Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2193.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115221701/http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2193.aspx |archive-date=15 January 2008 |title=The Tempest |date=21 July 2005 |publisher=Royal Shakespeare Company |access-date=20 September 2008}}</ref> In 1997, he took the role of [[Othello (character)|Othello]] with the [[Shakespeare Theatre Company]] (Washington, D.C.) in a [[Race-reversed casting|"photo negative" production]] of a white ''Othello'' with an otherwise all-black cast. Stewart had wanted to play the title role since the age of 14, so he and director [[Jude Kelly]] inverted the play so Othello became a comment on a white man entering a black society.<ref name="BMC1">{{cite web |url=http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus/content/cat_960/RaceAndOthello.htm?v=category&i=00960.01&s=00960&n=99000&o= |title=The Issue of Race and Othello |work=Bcs.bedfordstmartins.com |access-date=2 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716171355/http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus/content/cat_960/RaceAndOthello.htm?v=category&i=00960.01&s=00960&n=99000&o= |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="Othelloby">{{cite web |url=http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=44&source=l |title=Othello by William Shakespeare directed by Jude Kelly |publisher=The Shakespeare Theatre Company |access-date=20 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108233725/http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=44&source=l |archive-date=8 January 2009}}</ref>

{{Quote box|width=300px|align=left|salign=right|quote=[London theatre] critics ... have showered him with perhaps the highest compliment they can conjure. He has, they say, overcome the technique-destroying indignity of being a major American television star.|source=''The New York Times'', 2008{{r|lyall20080127}}}}

He played Antony again opposite [[Harriet Walter]]'s Cleopatra in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' at the [[Novello Theatre]] in London in 2007 to excellent reviews.{{r|lyall20080127}} During this period, Stewart also addressed the [[Durham Union Society]] on his life in film and theatre. When Stewart began playing [[Macbeth (Macbeth)|Macbeth]] in the West End in 2007, some said that he was too old for the role; he and the show again received excellent reviews, with one critic calling Stewart "one of our finest Shakespearean actors".{{r|appleyard20071104}}<ref name="lyall20080127">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/theater/27lyal.html?pagewanted=all |title=To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls |work=The New York Times |date=27 January 2008 |access-date=27 April 2011 |last=Lyall |first=Sarah}}</ref> He was named as the next [[Cameron Mackintosh]] Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]] in January 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/070117.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526203531/http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/070117.shtml |archive-date=26 May 2008 |title=Patrick Stewart named Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |date=17 January 2007 |access-date=20 September 2008}}</ref> In 2008, Stewart played [[King Claudius]] in ''[[Hamlet]]'' alongside [[David Tennant]]. He won the [[Laurence Olivier Award]] for Best Supporting Actor for the part. When collecting his award, he dedicated the award "in part" to Tennant and Tennant's understudy Edward Bennett, after Tennant's back injury and subsequent absence from four weeks of ''Hamlet'' disqualified him from an Olivier nomination.<ref>{{cite web |author=Staff |date=8 March 2009 |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/03-2009/speeches-and-the-laurence-olivier-winners-said_18513.html |title=Speeches: And the Laurence Olivier Winners Said |work=WhatsonStage.com |access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref>

In 2009, Stewart appeared alongside Ian McKellen as the lead duo of Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), in ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. Stewart had previously appeared only once alongside McKellen on stage, but the pair had developed a close friendship while waiting around on set filming the ''X-Men'' films.<ref name="Cav">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/dominiccavendish/5083707/Sir-Ian-McKellen-and-Patrick-Stewart-on-Waiting-For-Godot.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403012126/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/dominiccavendish/5083707/Sir-Ian-McKellen-and-Patrick-Stewart-on-Waiting-For-Godot.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 April 2009 |title=Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |date=31 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |access-date=8 July 2009}}</ref> Stewart stated that performing in this play was the fulfilment of a 50-year ambition, having seen [[Peter O'Toole]] appear in it at the [[Bristol Old Vic]] while Stewart was just 17.<ref name="Cav" /> Reviewers stated that his interpretation captured well the balance between humour and despair that characterises the work.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/08iht-LON8.html |title=McKellen and Stewart Deliver a 'Godot' With a Difference |last=Wolf |first=Matt |date=7 May 2009 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=8 July 2009 |quote=...the two tramps suspended in the limbo that, broadly speaking, is life. But in my extensive experience of this play, I've never seen a staging as attuned to the presence of mortality that underpins even Beckett's jauntiest repartee.}}</ref> 

In 2014, Stewart and McKellen appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] with two alternating productions, ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]''. To promote the plays, Stewart and McKellen, acted on Stewart's wife's suggestion to tour New York City in a Twitter campaign in which the actors would take playful photographs of themselves visiting various tourist locations on their days off while wearing their ''Godot'' characters' [[bowler hat]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hosmer |first1=Katie |title=Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart Act Like NYC Tourists |url=https://mymodernmet.com/ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart-nyc-tourist-photos/ |website=My Modern Met |date=3 April 2014 |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref> Although the plays' marketing department disapproved of the idea, the actors proceeded with the inexpensive publicity campaign, which proved a major success. Furthermore, this campaign changed Stewart's image as a serious actor by emphasising his sense of humour, which led to frequent guest appearances in various comedy programs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Reilly |first1=Terry |title=The Show Must Go On: Broadway Marketing |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/the-percentage-of-broadway-shows-that-break-even-may-surprise-you-1.6051734 |website=CBC |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>

Stewart has been a prolific actor in performances by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]], appearing in more than 60 productions.<ref name=sbt>{{cite web |title=RSC performances Patrick Stewart |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/view_as/list/search/rsc_person:patrick-stewart/page/4 |website=[[Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]] |access-date=18 July 2022}}</ref> His first appearance was in 1966 in ''[[The Investigation (play)|The Investigation]]'' and in the years that followed he became a core member of the company, taking on three or four major roles each season.<ref name="Trowbridge">{{cite book |last=Trowbridge |first=Simon |title=Stratfordians: a Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company |publisher=Editions Albert Creed |location=Oxford, England |year=2008 |pages=471–473 |isbn=978-0-9559830-1-6}}</ref> On 18 November 2012, Stewart appeared on stage at [[St Martin's Theatre]] in the West End for a 60th anniversary performance of [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[The Mousetrap]]'', the world's longest-running play.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mousetrap celebrates 60 years with gala performance |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20385087 |access-date=26 November 2022 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>